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...Jade Koh, who is listed as the general manager of Circle 33 on LinkedIn, declined to comment. The club does not have a website and its Google listing said it was permanently closed....
...One focuses on Sunja’s formative years under the shadow of colonial subjugation and her two first loves — her doting father and, later, the new director at the fish market, Koh Hansu (Lee Min-ho), a Gatsby-esque...
...Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean leader’s half-brother, was killed by a nerve agent at a Malaysian airport in early 2017....
...Kim Seong-min, a defector and democracy activist in Seoul, notes that the bowibu has sharpened its tracking of defectors....
...“We have nothing to confirm and there has been no unusual activity detected in North Korea,” said Kang Min-seok, a spokesperson for the presidential office in Seoul....
...The Myanmar designations — Min Aung Hlaing, head of the armed forces, and Soe Win, his deputy — over the brutal military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims highlight a question over the practical impact of some...
...[however] smuggling, especially at night-time, is continuing,” said Kim Seong Min, a former North Korean military official now based in Seoul....
...President Moon needs to persuade Mr Trump on this,” said Koh Yoo-hwan, a government adviser and a professor at Dongguk University....
...“A quid pro quo deal seems to have been reached between the two sides because Pyongyang would not move forward without some corresponding measures from Washington,” said Koh Yoo-hwan, a policy adviser at...
...North Korea expressed optimism at the outcome of the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, a day after the country’s foreign minister lamented the sudden collapse of the talks which ended without...
...“I think you guys have lots of questions,” joked Lee Jong-min, vice-president of Samsung’s mobile business, to investors in Seoul....
...In the same year, Hwang Jang-yop, a senior ruling Workers’ party official who was once a tutor to Kim Jong Un’s late father Kim Jong Il, defected to South Korea....
...“The idea seems a bit premature,” said Koh Yoo-hwan, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul....
...There are also the questions of whether the current diplomatic thaw will persist, and whether Kim Jong Un, the isolated nation’s supreme leader, is serious about allowing foreign investment....
...“Kim Jong Un needs this guarantee, so that he can persuade his military and people that North Korea is now able to give up its nuclear weapons,” said Koh Yoo-hwan, a policy adviser at South Korea’s national...
...“He cannot ensure his regime’s long-term survival without economic development, which requires improved external relations and de-nuclearisation,” said Koh Yoo-hwan, professor at Dongguk University....
...North Koreans awoke on Tuesday to front-page images in state-run media depicting leader Kim Jong Un among Singapore’s high-rises, offering a glimpse of a potential future for their impoverished nation....
...“It is a drastic change for North Korea, which reflects the character of Kim Jong Un,” he added....
...However, Mr Shin and other analysts believe Pyongyang will not walk away from diplomacy and that negotiations are now likely to become more complicated, with the Kim Jong Un regime seeking concrete concessions...
...secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s visit to Pyongyang last weekend revealed the distance between the Trump administration, which is demanding a rapid and complete denuclearisation, and North Korean leader Kim Jong...
...Although scepticism persists about whether Kim Jong Un will follow through on talk to take nuclear weapons out of North Korea and open the economy, optimism over improving relations between Pyongyang and...
...But this will not likely to lead to a breakdown of talks,” said Koh Yu-hwan, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul....
...“Kim Jong Un likes to show a friendly and humane style of leadership — a leader who is frequently in contact with normal people,” says Hong Min, a researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification...
...“We need to be cautious as many obstacles still remain,” said Koh Yoo-hwan, a professor of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul....
...Koh Byung-hak, a 75-year-old retired soldier, agreed with the South Korean leader. “Young people fail to see the bigger picture with the Olympics . . ....
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