SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took steps Sunday to reciprocate President Yoon Suk Yeol’s commitment to improving bilateral ties, as he accepted a South Korean team’s inspection of the planned release of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant and acknowledged the past pain of Koreans under [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol ramped up diplomacy with South Korea’s most important neighbors on Friday, the first full day since his election, vowing to rebuild the alliance with the United States while developing relations with China. Yoon also spoke by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and stressed the [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With coronavirus outbreaks restricting in-person meetings and overseas travel, diplomats are turning increasingly to a safer, more convenient mode of engagement with their foreign counterparts: videoconferencing. In recent months, the typical scene of officials huddling together to build rapport and engage in negotiations of some sorts has been replaced [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the fixtures in President Moon Jae-in’s daily schedule in recent months has been to have phone calls with the leaders of foreign countries seeking South Korea’s help in coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The long list includes friends, partners and allies from across the world, such as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan needs to apologize to South Korea in a “convincing” manner over its past wrongdoings as Germany did to Poland, renowned American professor and author Jared Diamond said Thursday. His suggestion came as South Kore and Japan are trapped in one of the worst diplomatic rows in their modern [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Harry Harris, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, has apparently come to the fore in Washington’s call for more money from Seoul for its troops here, potentially taking a toll on Washington’s public diplomacy with its key regional ally. The two sides have been in a tug-of-war over how [...]
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States has told South Korea that it is looking forward to cooperating with Seoul’s acting president in the wake of the recent parliamentary impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Sunday that Avril Haines, White House deputy national security adviser, delivered the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea and Cuba reaffirmed their friendly ties as a senior North Korean official visited Havana to attend Fidel Castro’s memorial service, Pyongyang’s media said Tuesday. Choe Ryong-hae, a vice chairman of the ruling party’s central committee, met with Cuba’s leader Raul Castro on Saturday during his visit to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is keeping close tabs on the strong-worded media response from China and its possible retaliatory measures against Seoul’s plan to deploy a United States missile defense system on the peninsula, a top diplomat said Friday. Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, however, emphasized that it is important to work [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Criticisms abound on the lack of South Korea’s diplomacy as the United States and Japan hurry to enhance their bilateral alliance and Seoul shuns Tokyo over history disputes. South Korea has for decades maintained close three-way security ties not only with its ally, the U.S., but with Japan, South [...]