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Moon, Trump to Hold Bilateral Talks on North Korea This Week

Moon, Trump to Hold Bilateral Talks on North Korea This Week

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet here this week, Seoul’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, for bilateral talks expected to focus on ways to deal with provocative North Korea. The two leaders will hold a bilateral summit here on Thursday, [...]

Abe Fails to Dissuade Moon from Pushing North Korea Humanitarian Aid

Abe Fails to Dissuade Moon from Pushing North Korea Humanitarian Aid

SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in suggested Friday that South Korea could go ahead with humanitarian aid to North Korea in a thinly veiled rejection of a call for caution by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe asked Moon to consider the timing of the proposed aid during their phone conversation, but [...]

Moon Orders Thorough Implementation of U.N. Sanctions on N. Korea

Moon Orders Thorough Implementation of U.N. Sanctions on N. Korea

SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in ordered thorough implementation of the latest U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea after the communist nation defiantly carried out yet another ballistic missile launch, the presidential spokesman said Friday. Moon issued the order during a National Security Council meeting he presided over after the North [...]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung Hwa Discusses UN Sanctions on North Korea, Her White Hair in Recent TV Appearance

Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung Hwa Discusses UN Sanctions on North Korea, Her White Hair in Recent TV Appearance

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign Affairs Minister Kang made an appearance on YTN News on September 13, in which she discussed a number of topics ranging from the recently declared U.N. sanctions on North Korea to a bizarre controversy over her crop of silver hair. Kang expounded on the government’s position regarding the announced [...]

North Korea’s Only News Channel Shows Off Nation’s Transportation System

North Korea’s Only News Channel Shows Off Nation’s Transportation System

SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A broadcast on September 8 by North Korea’s only official news channel revealed that hydrogen bombs may not have been the only technology development the reclusive nation has been conducting underground. In the Joseon Jungang TV piece, Pyongyang residents are seen riding the subway, with an extra close-up on [...]

Moon Discusses Energy, Infrastructure, Agriculture in Address at EEF

Moon Discusses Energy, Infrastructure, Agriculture in Address at EEF

VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in on Thursday proposed expanding economic cooperation between South Korea and Russia in a wide range of areas, including energy, infrastructure and agriculture, noting those projects might set an example of co-prosperity for isolated North Korea. In his address to the third Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in [...]

THAAD Launchers Enter U.S. Base amid Protests

THAAD Launchers Enter U.S. Base amid Protests

SEONGJU, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Four more interceptor launchers for a U.S. missile defense system entered a southern military base Thursday after clashes between police and protesters that resulted in dozens of injuries. The arrival of the launchers and other equipment came some 14 months after Seoul and Washington decided to deploy the Terminal [...]