SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Turkey agreed Monday to strengthen cooperation in the areas of defense and the arms industry and push to sign a military deal as part of such efforts, the defense ministry said. South Korean Vice Defense Minister Shin Beom-chul and his Turkish counterpart, Alpaslan Kavaklioglu, said the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, China and Japan are set to hold a series of meetings in Seoul on Monday to discuss resuming the long-stalled summit of their leaders. The deputy director-general meetings come a day before high-level talks among South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Chung Byung-won, Takehiro Funakoshi, Japan’s senior deputy [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The top diplomats of South Korea and Iran discussed strengthening bilateral ties and the recent transfer of Tehran’s frozen funds in Seoul on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Saturday. Foreign Minister Park Jin and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, held [...]
SEOUL/HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday he will seriously consider a visit to South Korea when he met with South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on the sidelines of the Asian Games, an official said. Xi brought up the issue first during the meeting with Han in the [...]
NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol held another round of back-to-back summits with world leaders in New York on Thursday as he rampped up his push to promote South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo in Busan. Since his arrival in New York on Monday to attend [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, later this week, an official said Friday. Han will depart for China on Saturday to attend the opening ceremony, which is set to take place [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Industry Minister Bang Moon-kyu met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves in Seoul on Friday and asked for addressing concerns among domestic chipmakers regarding Washington’s semiconductor export controls on China, his office said. In October last year, the U.S. announced a set of rules that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s foreign ministry on Friday welcomed Saudi Arabia’s recent discussions with Yemen’s Houthi delegation amid efforts for a cease-fire to end the yearslong conflict in the region. “Our government welcomes the recent talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to resolve the Yemen issue, and recognizes the continuous efforts of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Russian Embassy in Seoul on Thursday expressed “deep regret” over President Yoon Suk Yeol’s speech condemning military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow at the United Nations and accused him of joining Washington’s “propaganda campaign.” During his keynote address to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday (U.S. time), Yoon [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill calling for the expansion of sanctions against North Korea’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine, a congressional website showed Wednesday. On Monday, Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Joe Wilson (R-SC) introduced the bill, entitled “To provide for the imposition of sanctions with [...]