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Syeda Mubeena Hashmi Posted in World

Seoul, Washington Discuss Investments and Middle East Role

A South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday as the allies discussed delayed Korean investments in the United States and Seoul’s potential role in regional security. Cho outlined Seoul’s willingness to contribute to efforts protecting navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. Both sides also agreed to continue consultations on investment commitments and strategic cooperation. Read More…

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Syeda Mubeena Hashmi Posted in World

North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Into East Sea

North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, prompting heightened surveillance by Seoul and coordination with the United States and Japan. The launch came days after Pyongyang reaffirmed its nuclear-armed status and rejected a UN nuclear watchdog resolution calling for an end to its nuclear activities. Japan also confirmed the launch. Read More…

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Lee Says Trump Seeks Dialogue With North Korea

SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Friday that US President Donald Trump clearly wants dialogue with North Korea and urged Washington to pursue talks with Pyongyang. Lee said Seoul was continuing preliminary efforts to facilitate US-North Korea engagement, while noting a Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting remained uncertain but possible. He also ruled out South Korean troops joining the Iran war. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

South Korea reportedly condemns attack on vessel in Strait of Hormuz  

Seoul "strongly condemned" attacks on civilian vessels, saying a closer examination was needed regarding last week's strike in the Strait of Hormuz, as the government has yet to determine who was responsible for the incident, local media reported. "Our government maintains that attacks on privately operated vessels, including the HMM Namu, can neither be justified nor tolerated, and we strongly condemn them," National Security Advisor Wi Sung-lac said, according to a report by Yonhap News Agency. Read More…

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US, South Korea move toward nuclear-powered submarine cooperation 

South Korea’s push to acquire nuclear-powered submarines will contribute to the alliance with the US by boosting Seoul’s deterrence capabilities, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Monday. Cho made the remarks during a breakfast meeting with the US Undersecretary of War for Policy, Elbridge Colby, Yonhap News Agency reported. Colby is visiting Seoul this week following the Pentagon's release of a new National Defence Strategy, which includes its policy direction for the Korean Peninsula and other alliance issues. Read More…

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N. Korea sent 3,000 more soldiers to Russia this year: Seoul  

North Korea sent an additional 3,000 troops to Russia this year and is still supplying missiles, artillery and ammunition to help Moscow fight Kyiv, Seoul’s military said on Thursday. Russia and North Korea have drawn closer since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with Seoul accusing Kim Jong Un of sending thousands of troops and containers of weapons to help Moscow. Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang has officially confirmed the troop deployment but the two countries signed a military deal last year, including a mutual defence clause, when Russian President Vladimir Putin… Read More…

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Seoul police prepare to ‘prevent conflict’ at Yoon impeachment verdict

South Korean police are prepared to mobilise “all available equipment” to prevent unrest when a court announces whether it upholds the impeachment of the country’s suspended president, Seoul’s police chief said Monday. The Constitutional Court is expected to announce its decision on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol this month over his declaration of martial law, with both supporters and opponents of the disgraced leader set to gather in Seoul’s streets. Yoon’s short-lived suspension of civilian rule plunged democratic South Korea into political turmoil and he was detained in… Read More…

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N. Korea jams GPS signals, affecting ships, aircraft in South

North Korea staged GPS jamming attacks on Friday and Saturday, Seoul’s military said, an operation that was affecting several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in South Korea. The jamming allegations come about a week after the North test-fired what it said was its most advanced and powerful solid-fuel ICBM missile, its first such launch since being accused of sending soldiers to help Russia fight Ukraine. The South fired its own ballistic missile into the sea on Friday in a show of force aimed at showing its resolve to respond… Read More…

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South Korean doctors go on indefinite strike

Doctors in South Korea launched an indefinite walkout in three major hospitals in the capital Seoul, local media has reported. Senior doctors suspended treatment in outpatient departments at Severance Hospital, Gangnam Severance Hospital and Yongin Severance Hospital, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported on Thursday. All non-emergency surgeries and other services were also suspended by the doctors. However, emergency services will continue. Read More…

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Trash war escalates as North Korea sends more junk balloons to S. Korea

North Korea has sent more trash-filled balloons southward, Seoul's military has said, the latest in a series of border barrages that have sparked a tit-for-tat propaganda campaign. Pyongyang launched about 350 balloons on Monday evening and then launched more late on Tuesday, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in statement. Around 100 of those launched on Monday had landed in the South, mainly in northern Gyeonggi province and the capital Seoul, the JCS said. Read More…

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