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...The summit being pushed by Kishida would seek to secure the release of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago, according to people in Washington and Tokyo familiar with the diplomatic talks...
...South Korea also has one of the highest rates of household debt as a proportion of GDP in the developed world, according to the Institute of International Finance....
...The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is projected to win 176 seats in the 300-seat National Assembly, against 109 seats for Yoon’s ruling People Power Party (PPP), as voters voiced their anger...
...The statement also acknowledged “serious concerns of Japan and the Republic of Korea about the recent sharp depreciation of the Japanese yen and the Korean won”....
...As these four autocracies pull closer together, so America’s democratic allies are also tightening their links....
...Kim told North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly on Monday that South Korea was his country’s “principal enemy” and its citizens should no longer be regarded as “fellow countrymen” as he ordered officials...
...We are going to invest in, and produce, all kinds of interactive content,” says Choi. In total, South Korea, with a population of 52mn people, is home to 124 companies in the latest FT ranking....
...The general in charge of the frontline unit stressed the “sacred duty” of South Korean men to guard the nation against the threat of nuclear-armed North Korea....
...North Korea has announced that it is scrapping a package of military confidence-building measures with South Korea, as tensions mount on the Korean peninsula after Pyongyang’s successful launch of its first...
...Lee’s Democratic party, which will challenge Yoon’s People Power party in April’s elections, described the attack as an “act of terror” and a “threat to democracy”....
...ChatGPT developer OpenAI and its investor Microsoft last week confirmed that hackers working on behalf of North Korea, as well as China, Russia and Iran, were using the company’s AI services “in support...
...Lee, who is also facing prosecution for asking an underwear manufacturer to transfer $8mn to North Korea in an illegal effort to foster economic ties, was stabbed in the neck this month by an assailant who...
...Elections also hold propaganda value. “This is not about being democratic,” says Rachel Minyoung Lee, a North Korea expert and non-resident fellow at the Stimson Center think-tank in Washington....
...Thus, both North and South Korea can continue to harbour the hope of one day reunifying the peninsula. The Ukrainian context is different....
...Kishida has said repeatedly that “the Ukraine of today may be the east Asia of tomorrow” — citing Chinese maritime bullying, as well as North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes, as evidence of the rising...
...people with knowledge of the talks....
...It is also one of Apple’s smartphone memory chip suppliers....
...Wilson of The Aerospace Corporation said South Korea’s planned equivalent of the US-operated Global Positioning System satellite network, known as KPS, could complement US surveillance capabilities....
...Two weeks later at the North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly he reaffirmed his commitment to “exponentially increase nuclear weapons production to realise all kinds of nuclear strike methods”....
...“The latter are also actively promoting art and culture overseas as soft power.”...
...“The Council must address the horrors, the abuses, and crimes being perpetrated daily by the Kim regime against its own citizens — and people from other Member States, including Japan and Republic of Korea...
...“The leader of the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] shows great interest in rocket engineering, they are also trying to develop space [capabilities].”...
...Kwon, who resided in South Korea and Singapore at the time of the alleged fraud, is also in the midst of a fierce extradition battle....
...Under heavy US sanctions and with its own strained defence industrial base, the Kremlin has turned to Iran and North Korea to rearm....
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