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...The Indiana plant will be funded out of a $22bn investment in the US that was announced by the SK Group conglomerate’s chair Chey Tae-won during a public conference call with President Biden in 2022....
...North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected five big munitions factories within a single week last month, calling on engineers and officials to increase production of weapons ranging from intercontinental...
...“Our allies first have to analyse the information and then take a decision as to whether to share it with us,” said Yang....
...“It has been on the cards for a long time,” said Yang. More significant, said Yang, was North Korea’s use of a “cold launch” system to fire the long-range missile....
...The sanctions regime is no longer effective without their participation,” said Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul....
...South Korea’s ruling conservative party, said the country’s intelligence services believed Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu had proposed joint exercises during a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong...
...North Korea has claimed to have completed work on its first-ever military reconnaissance satellite, as leader Kim Jong Un continues to develop the breadth and sophistication of his weapons programmes....
...Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong Un’s sister, warned on Monday that North Korea would respond to US nuclear-capable assets on the Korean peninsula by turning the Pacific into a “firing range”....
...“The drones themselves did not pose a military threat,” said Yang....
...“The sense of crisis and anxiety over our industry’s competitiveness is greater than ever,” said Kim Yang-paeng, senior researcher at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade....
...“Shipowners are looking for alternative fuel sources other than LNG that can reduce carbon emissions further,” said Yang Jong-seo, a researcher at the Export-Import Bank of Korea....
...US national security adviser Jake Sullivan met China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Luxembourg on Monday in a meeting officials described as aimed at managing competition between the world powers....
...Sung Il-jong, a ruling People Power party lawmaker, said that the repatriation proved that “the Moon administration was a friend of the Kim Jong Un regime”....
...Lee Sook-jong adds: “In Korea, a president rules for five years. But a chaebol family rules forever.”...
...Tae has a parting message for the new Biden administration: do not strike an Iran-style nuclear deal because it would essentially legitimise Kim Jong Un and justify his policies....
...The report marked the first signal of operations at Yongbyon, about 90km north of Pyongyang, since December 2018, between the two summits held by Kim Jong Un and then US president Donald Trump....
...Tae Yong-ho’s lunch interview with the FT (“Defector Tae Yong-ho: ‘A very small spark could topple Kim Jong Un’”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, February 13) provided great insights into Kim Jong Un’s North Korea...
...North Korea fired two missiles on Sunday, in the first known military provocation from Kim Jong Un’s nuclear-armed regime since Joe Biden took office....
...The intrepid Canadian, known for a mix of charm, wits and chutzpah, had become a rare western interlocutor with Kim Jong Un....
...Mr Jon has held senior finance roles in the North Korean government and ruling Workers’ Party and was close to the late leader Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un’s father, analysts said....
...Now, insiders bear the brunt, writes Yuan Yang....
...On Monday, Yoon Tae-ho, a South Korean health ministry official, said: “The [defector] is neither registered as a Covid-19 patient nor classified as a person who came in contact with virus patients.”...
...(FT) Lunch with the FT: North Korean defector Tae Yong-ho “A very small spark” is all it would take to topple Kim Jong Un, the former North Korean diplomat told Edward White over lunch in South Korea, where...
...Yuan Yang is the FT’s deputy Beijing bureau chief Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
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