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[Diplomatic Circuit] Moon to make state visit to Sweden June 14-15

President Moon Jae-in will make a state visit to Sweden from June 14-15 at the invitation of His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, the Embassy of Sweden in Seoul said. The president will lead ...

June 3, 2019
Diplomatic Circuit
Divers to begin search inside sunken tourist ship in Budapest

South Korea expects the Hungarian authorities to soon begin searching inside the sunken tour boat involved in a collision in the Danube River in Budapest which killed at least seven Korean tourists a...

May 31, 2019
Social affairs
Sanctions have started to hit North Korea’s most vulnerable: experts

Tough sanctions slapped on North Korea have begun to adversely affect the most vulnerable people there, experts said, stressing the need for swift humanitarian action for millions of hungry and sick ...

May 30, 2019
North Korea
[News Focus] No sign of a break in the impasse between Seoul, Tokyo over forced labor

Relations between South Korea and Japan have deteriorated to what is arguably their worst point to date as they dispute every inch of ground over Tokyo’s responsibility to compensate the Korean victi...

May 29, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Trump brushes off concerns over N. Korea missile tests

US President Donald Trump on Sunday downplayed the potential danger of North Korea’s missile launches in early May, just a day after national security adviser John Bolton called the tests a clear bre...

May 26, 2019
North Korea
US closely watching for N. Korea’s possible financial sanction violations

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said President Donald Trump has firm willingness to implement sanctions against North Korea, in another signal that the country will not pursue sanctions relief i...

May 23, 2019
North Korea
US, North Korea square off over seized trade ship

The US State Department on Wednesday reaffirmed that UN sanctions against North Korea will remain in place, after Pyongyang publicly criticized Washington’s “extreme hostile policy” regarding the sei...

May 22, 2019
North Korea
Minister: N. Korea food aid program will abide by humanitarian principles

Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul said Tuesday that the government’s plans to send food assistance to North Korea will adhere to humanitarian principles and pledged to separate the action from wider...

May 21, 2019
North Korea
‘US should accept incremental approach to North Korea nuclear issue’

The US should revise its strategy of pressuring North Korea to give up all its nuclear weapons before offering any sanctions relief, said a veteran diplomat, in order to avoid repeating diplomatic ev...

May 21, 2019
North Korea
[Diplomatic Circuit] Swiss Embassy opens hanok-inspired building in Seoul

The Embassy of Switzerland has opened its new building that reinterprets hanok -- traditional Korean houses -- in central Seoul, in the hope that it will serve as a platform for cooperation between t...

May 20, 2019
Diplomatic Circuit
UAE plays decisive role in freeing Korean from Libya

Rescue efforts by the United Arab Emirates and the Eastern-Libya army played a crucial role in freeing a Korean national held captive for 315 days in western Libya, an official at Seoul’s Foreign Min...

May 17, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Ministry downplays reports on North Korea’s food situation

Amid the Seoul government’s efforts to send humanitarian aid to the North, the Unification Ministry on Wednesday shrugged off reports that North Korea might not be facing a severe food crisis given t...

May 15, 2019
North Korea
Seoul mulls sending food aid to Pyongyang before October

The South Korean government is considering sending food aid to North Korea before the harvest season at the request of a UN agency that called on the international community to support Pyongyang, whi...

May 14, 2019
North Korea
[News Briefs] Ministry to revise travel alert system for Africa, Middle East

South Korea will revise the travel warning system for conflict-prone regions in Africa and the Middle East, in a move to prevent recurrence of the recent case of a citizen who was rescued after being...

May 13, 2019
Foreign Affairs
[Diplomatic circuit] Swedish Embassy in Seoul holds business forum on China, 5G

The Sweden-Korea Business Forum 2019 was held by the Embassy of Sweden in Seoul together with Business Sweden and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Korea on Monday, in a bid to discuss ways to enhan...

May 13, 2019
Diplomatic Circuit

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