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Trump-Kim summit unlikely before US election: experts

North KoreaJul 2, 2020

Leaders of the US and North Korea are unlikely to push for their third summit before November, experts said Thursday, as domestic priorities override foreign policy concerns in the lead-up to the US ...
US commander reaffirms successful handover of wartime role

DefenseJul 1, 2020

The United States remains dedicated to a successful handover of the wartime operational control to South Korea, said Gen. Robert Abrams, who holds dual roles of commander of the US military here and ...
Number of NK refugees in Q2 hits all-time low

North KoreaJul 1, 2020

A total of 12 North Korean refugees arrived here between April and June this year, the lowest figure since 2003 when Seoul’s Unification Ministry started compiling the data, it said Wednesday. The f...
Conscientious objectors start filing for alternative service

DefenseJun 30, 2020

South Korea’s military on Tuesday opened applications for alternative military service to conscientious objectors. The move is in line with the Constitutional Court’s landmark ruling in June 2018 tha...
Trump-Kim summit unlikely before US election: US official

North KoreaJun 30, 2020

A third US-North Korea summit is unlikely before the US presidential election in November, but the door is open to diplomacy, US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said Monday. “I think it’s p...
S. Korea readies transfer of wartime command role

DefenseJun 29, 2020

South Korea’s Defense Ministry convened the first of this year’s two meetings on preparations for the transfer of its wartime operational control from the United States, scheduled to be completed by ...
North rallies people behind leader Kim amid lingering tensions

North KoreaJun 29, 2020

North Korea on Monday called on its people to rally behind leader Kim Jong-un amid lingering tensions on the peninsula, marking the fourth anniversary of Kim’s rise to chairman of the State Affairs C...
Tokyo objects to expanded G-7 summit including Seoul: report

Foreign affairsJun 28, 2020

The Japanese government has raised objections to the US proposal to include South Korea in an expanded Group of 7 summit in September, Japan’s Kyodo News reported Sunday, citing multiple diplomatic s...
Defectors’ cash aid to family cut off amid tightened security

North KoreaJun 28, 2020

North Korea has recently stepped up monitoring of its citizens whose family members have defected to the South, a local news outlet reported Sunday. Defectors here have been sending cash to and corr...
S. Korea, US say effort to disarm NK goes on

DefenseJun 25, 2020

Defense chiefs of South Korea and the US, Jeong Kyeong-doo and Mark Esper, respectively, reaffirmed Thursday the commitment to defending the Korean Peninsula, championing the bolstering of “diplomati...
[Korean War Anniversary] ‘I wanted to do something’: Swedish nurse

DefenseJun 25, 2020

The center, the country’s first hospital to be designated to treat infectious disease, is now a major battlefield in South Korea’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The Swedish veteran said sh...
Korean War remains return home after seven decades

PoliticsJun 24, 2020

The remains of 147 South Korean soldiers who perished during the Korean War returned home on Wednesday to a solemn welcome. A special ceremony for their homecoming is scheduled Thursday evening as p...
[Herald Interview] Former nuclear envoy raps Moon’s policy on N. Korea

North KoreaJun 23, 2020

Inter-Korean relations under the Moon Jae-in administration were never going to work, as they were built on a misguided belief, as worded by Moon himself in 2018, that North Korea would relinquish it...
[Herald Interview] Former combined forces No. 2 defends 2018 military pact with North

North KoreaJun 22, 2020

Kim Byung-joo, former deputy commander of the ROK-US Combined Forces Command, said South Korea should manage military tensions to prevent them from getting out of control, while remaining on guard ag...
S. Korea, US should resume joint drills: Ex-US commander

North KoreaJun 19, 2020

South Korea and the United States should resume large-scale joint military exercises to make North Korea agitated and realize it is overstepping, said Vincent Brooks, who headed the 28,500-strong com...