President Lee Jae Myung said South Korea’s deterrence against North Korea is not affected by the movement of US Forces Korea air defense assets, while underscoring the importance of self-reliant national defense.
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President Lee Jae Myung’s X account has become required reading for the Blue House press corps, with posts appearing as late as 1:30 a.m. Here’s my analysis on why he leans on social media, its upsides and downsides, and how he might better harness it.
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South Korea plans to impose fuel price caps this week for effectively the first time since 1997, after a sharp run-up in prices that authorities say has occurred even before any Middle East supply disruption has hit the country.
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President Lee Jae Myung ordered "extraordinary measures" to shore up energy supplies and rein in surging oil prices, including the swift imposition of a petroleum price cap for the first time in nearly 30 years.
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Takaichi’s two-thirds supermajority gives Tokyo room to shift from incremental defense upgrades to structural change — and it puts a new question to Seoul: how far to cooperate, and on what terms, with a stronger Japan.
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Decisions over North Korean prisoners of war captured in Ukraine belong to Kyiv, not Seoul or the media, an independent UN human rights investigator said, noting that Ukraine has already recognized the risk of torture if the captives are sent back to North Korea.
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Lee Hae-chan, a towering figure in South Korea’s liberal politics who rose from a jailed democracy activist to a dominant prime minister, master election strategist and seven-term lawmaker, died Sunday. He was 73.
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Arrived in Beijing to cover President Lee Jae Myung’s four-day state visit to China — my first overseas trip as a member of the Blue House press corps.
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South Korea and the United States are moving to regularize their coordination talks on North Korea policy, as the Lee Jae Myung administration seeks to push the Korean Peninsula peace process into gear next year.
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“When it comes to Korean Peninsula policy and inter-Korean relations, this belongs to the realm of sovereignty. Therefore, the Unification Ministry is the primary counterpart in consultations with our ally,” Chung said.
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The Unification Ministry has decided to skip Foreign Ministry-led consultations with the United States on North Korea policy — a follow-up to the allies’ joint fact sheet — amid a deepening inter-ministerial feud.
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President Lee Jae Myung’s remark at Wednesday’s press conference — that he had been “unaware” of South Koreans detained in North Korea — has drawn anger and despair from the families of those held there and North Korean human rights groups.
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The martial law declaration lasted only six hours, but a year later, the animosity it unleashed lives on. Those six short hours fundamentally rewired South Korean politics, seeping into the very bones of the party system and the identities of partisans.
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Scores of government task forces investigating potential misconduct by officials tied to the Dec. 3 martial law declaration formally began operations Monday, with investigations launched into 49 government ministries and agencies.
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South Korea’s two major political parties are each racing to rewrite their primary rules ahead of next June’s local elections, igniting fierce internal battles over who should hold greater sway in deciding their candidate slates.
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APEC’s 2025 Gyeongju Declaration, adopted by consensus among all 21 member economies after strenuous and tense negotiations, marks a major break from the past for two key reasons.
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The leaders of South Korea and China agreed to reboot a regular high-level dialogue to strengthen strategic coordination on regional and global issues, pledging to turn their thaw into tangible economic cooperation and work toward peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung raised the curtain on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on Friday with a call for unity, saying the forum holds the answer to the world’s current turbulence.
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South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Thursday that the 21 APEC member economies “are very close” to finalizing a Gyeongju Declaration to be made after the APEC summit on Friday and Saturday.
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US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached an agreement on a tariff truce, describing the summit between the two as “amazing.”
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The future of the fragile rapprochement between Seoul and Tokyo appears to hinge more on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi than on South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.
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The leaders of South Korea and the United States reached a top-level breakthrough after months of tariff negotiations, as they also discussed security issues at their second summit in about two months on Wednesday.
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Seoul is stepping onto the APEC summit stage with a daunting task: to save the forum’s core, steady it amid global headwinds and steer leaders toward consensus on what matters most for sustainable and shared growth in the Asia-Pacific region.
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South Korea and the United States will soon begin talks to revise their civil nuclear cooperation pact, seeking to expand Seoul's rights over uranium enrichment and spent-fuel reprocessing, according to the country's top diplomat.
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Seoul expects continuity, not confrontation, in Seoul-Tokyo ties as Takaichi takes office, though echoes of her mentor Shinzo Abe’s nationalism and historical revisionism could test the fragile thaw.
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Plans for more than 300 South Korean detainees to depart Georgia on Wednesday via a charter flight have been postponed “due to circumstances on the US side,” Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
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South Korea has concluded negotiations for the release of more than 300 nationals detained in a US immigration raid at a battery construction plant in Georgia, and will bring them back home via a chartered flight.
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South Korea’s First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo expressed regret over the US release of video footage showing the arrest of more than 300 Korean workers during an immigration raid at a plant construction site in Georgia.
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President Lee Jae Myung has ordered an “all-out response” to swiftly resolve the detention of more than 300 South Koreans in a US immigration raid at a construction site in Georgia being built by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution.
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For Kim Jong-un, his presence at the Victory Day celebrations was far more than a symbolic debut on the multilateral stage: it reflected North Korea’s recalibrated grand strategy to elevate Pyongyang’s leverage abroad while tightening his grip at home.
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