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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) –Police will push for a blanket ban on assemblies and demonstrations from midnight to 6 a.m. to minimize public inconvenience from large-scale illegal gatherings, the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) said Thursday. The KNPA said it will push to stipulate the “midnight-to-6 a.m. gathering ban” in the Law on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly was set to vote Thursday on two separate motions seeking the arrest of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung and the dismissal of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo. The motions will be put to an anonymous vote during a plenary session in the afternoon. The motion requesting parliamentary consent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho said Thursday the government will closely monitor rising global economic uncertainties, after the U.S. central bank decided to hold its key rates overnight. The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday (local time) announced the decision to hold the rate steady between 5.25 percent and 5.50 percent. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A KF-16 fighter jet crashed during takeoff from its base in the southwestern county of Seosan on Thursday, and the lone pilot safely ejected before being taken to a hospital, the Air Force said. The jet belonging to the 20th Fighter Wing went down at the base in Seosan, [...]
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 [...]
NEW YORK/SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a stark warning against military cooperation between North Korea and Russia on Wednesday (U.S. time), saying any arms deal between the two countries would be considered a “direct provocation” against South Korea. Yoon made the remark during a keynote address to the U.N. [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States is trying to stop North Korea’s potential arms support to Russia “wherever we can,” its top diplomat said Wednesday, as last week’s summit between the two isolated regimes deepened concerns about their military cooperation. Speaking in an interview with broadcaster NBC, Secretary of State Antony Blinken [...]
NEW YORK/SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol held a series of summits with world leaders in New York on Wednesday (local time) as part of his ongoing efforts to secure support for South Korea’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo in Busan. Yoon, on the third day of his trip [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Foundation (KF) said Thursday it plans to hold an annual security forum with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington next week to discuss the South Korea-United States alliance and North Korea. The South Korea-U.S. Strategic Forum will kick off Monday (U.S. time) for [...]