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[Newsmaker] Vietnam massacre victims demand Korean government’s apology

Two Vietnamese women sat nervously in a mock trial on Sunday as they awaited the ruling on their case against South Korea over massacres that took place during the Vietnam War.“Defendant South Korea should pay reparations accordingly to the State Compensation Act and officially recognize its liability (in the massacre) to regain the dignity and honor of the plaintiffs,” Kim Young-ran, former Supreme Court Justice, delivered the ruling as the chief judge of the mock trial.As Kim read out the verd

Japan protests S. Korea's plan to offer dessert featuring Dokdo at summit dinner

Japan has protested South Korea's move to put dessert with a decoration featuring Dokdo on the table for the dinner planned for the upcoming historic inter-Korean summit, a local media reported Wednesday.According to Japan's broadcaster NHK, Kenji Kanasugi, the Japanese foreign ministry's director-general of Asian and Oceania affairs, protested the Seoul government's decision in his meeting with a senior South Korean Embassy official in Tokyo.He is also reported to have expressed regrets and cal

Apr 25, 2018
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S. Korea, US reaffirm joint efforts for successful summits with N. Korea

South Korea and the United States will continue to work closely together to ensure the success of their leaders' separate summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday on the outcome of recent talks between the countries' top security advisers.South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set to hold a bilateral summit with Kim on Friday.Moon's top security adviser Chung Eui-yong and his US counterpart John Bolton agreed to push for a summit betwe

Apr 25, 2018
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US mulls Adm. Harris as new amb. to South Korea: reports

The United States is considering picking Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of US forces in the Pacific, as top envoy to South Korea, media reports showed Wednesday.Citing a high-ranking White House source, the Washington Post reported that Washington is mulling appointing Harris as the new ambassador to South Korea. He was nominated to become the next ambassador to Australia in February. Adm. Harry Harris (AP)The ambassadorial post in South Korea has been vacant since US President Donald Trump t

Apr 25, 2018
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Top-down nuclear talks raise question, says Victor Cha

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may agree to a statement on peace and denuclearization during the planned summit, but it could still pose challenges in follow-up negotiations, a Korea expert Victor Cha said Tuesday. “It does raise a question of how much leaders can accomplish when there is no groundwork done in advance,” said Cha, who was once under consideration for US ambassador to South Korea, during a press conference on the sidelines of the Asan Plenum conferen

Apr 25, 2018
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US will not lift sanctions until NK takes concrete steps to denuclearize: White House

WASHINGTON -- The United States will not lift sanctions until North Korea takes "concrete actions" to denuclearize, the White House said Monday.White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said at a press briefing that US President Donald Trump plans to continue the "maximum pressure" campaign of economic and diplomatic sanctions until the North takes actions toward denuclearization."Certainly no sanctions lifted until we see concrete actions taken by North Korea to denuclearize," she said, adding

Apr 24, 2018
Foreign Policy
[2018 Inter-Korean summit] US, North Korea not on same page on denuclearization

Since North Korea announced it was willing to negotiate over its nuclear weapons program and offered to sit down for talks with the US, there has been lingering skepticism that it is a typical ploy from the North to weaken sanctions or buy time to perfect its nuclear and missile technology. Now, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is to hold a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday, as well as with US President Donald Trump by early June, with the North’s “denuclearization” expecte

Apr 24, 2018
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S. Korean, Japanese nuclear envoys meet ahead of inter-Korean summit

The top nuclear envoys of South Korea and Japan met Monday to discuss cooperation on North Korea and its nuclear issue ahead of the upcoming historic inter-Korean summit.Lee Do-hoon, South Korea's top nuclear negotiator, held the meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Kenji Kanasugi, in Seoul."There are many significant events in the near future, which are the inter-Korean summit, followed by the US-North Korea summit," Lee said at the start of the meeting. South Korea`s top nuclear envoy Lee Do

Apr 23, 2018
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US, China back Koreas discussing end to Korean War

The US and China on Friday backed the two Koreas discussing a peace deal that could officially end the Korean War during an inter-Korean summit next week, giving a boost to efforts to build a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump. YonhapThe US and China, together with North Korea, are signatories to the armistice, which left the two Koreas technically still at war since the 1950-1953 Korean War. “We would certainly like to see an end, a

Apr 21, 2018
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Uzbek president hopes for success in inter-Korean summit, peace on peninsula

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has expressed hope that the upcoming inter-Korean summit will pave the way for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, the foreign ministry here said Thursday.The Uzbek president made the remark during his meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha in Tashkent on Wednesday (local time). Kang was on a three-day trip to Central Asia that included her earlier visit to Kazakhstan. "President Mirziyoev said that he was deeply impressed by the South Kore

Apr 19, 2018
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Record number of journalists to cover historic summit between Koreas

Literally all eyes will likely be on the upcoming summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, with a record number of journalists from around the globe set to cover the event that Moon said could mark the start of the long delayed denuclearization of the communist North.As of Wednesday, a total of 2,833 journalists from local and foreign news outlets have registered to cover the historic inter-Korean summit slated for next Friday.Nearly 2,000 journalist

Apr 18, 2018
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N. Korea, China continue warming ties

North Korea and China continue to warm ties ahead of Pyongyang’s planned summits with Seoul and Washington, with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hailing Chinese art troupe’s visit to Pyongyang as “significant.”Kim said that the Chinese art troupe’s visit to the North “serves as a significant occasion in carrying forward and further consolidating the tradition of the two countries’ ties,” the Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday.In a sign of closer ties, a Chinese art troupe, led by Song T

Apr 18, 2018
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Korean professor elected as CESCR member for 3rd straight term

A South Korean professor has been elected as a member of a UN committee dealing with social and human rights issues for the third consecutive term, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Shin Hei-soo, a professor of Ewha Womans University, will serve as a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for three more years beginning in 2019, according to the ministry. This marks her third straight term since she was chosen for the post in 2011. (Yonhap)CESCR, consisting of 18 human

Apr 17, 2018
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‘S. Korea has own solution to denuclearization’

South Korea has its own solution for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, an official from Seoul’s presidential office said Friday, as North Korea and the US appear to remain far apart on what denuclearization entails. “On the matter of denuclearization, the South Korean government has its own solution,” a high-level Cheong Wa Dae official told reporters on condition of anonymity. However, the official declined to elaborate on whether the government’s solution includes a specific timeli

Apr 14, 2018
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S. Korea's top security adviser makes surprise visit to US

WASHINGTON -- South Korea's top national security adviser visited Washington on Wednesday to meet with his US counterpart, John Bolton, the White House said.The surprise trip by Chung Eui-yong, head of the presidential National Security Office, came ahead of the South Korean and US presidents’ separate summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.South Korean President Moon Jae-in is set to meet with Kim on April 27, while US President Donald Trump has said his meeting will be in May or early Ju

Apr 12, 2018
Foreign Policy

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