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Cheong Wa Dae: Japan's arbitration process offer unacceptable
N. Korean envoy seems alive despite report of execution: S. Korea‘s spy ag...
N.K. says planned S. Korea-U.S. military drill will affect working-level nu...
New top U.S. diplomat for East Asia visits Seoul
2 Japanese defense attaches recalled after secretly obtaining military secr...
Seo Dong-joo wins 2019 LMoA Young Artist Award
[Graphic News] UN: 464,000 people killed in homicides in 2017
[News Focus] Does Korea-Japan dispute put trilateral cooperation with US at...
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[Breaking] Ex-lawmaker found dead on mountain in western Seoul: police

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Cheong Wa Dae: Japan's arbitration process offer unacceptable

A couple of days ahead of the deadline set by Japan for South Korea to respond to its offer of a formal arbitration process over historical disputes, the office of President Moon Jae-in made clear Tuesday that it won't accept the call.Cheong Wa Dae’s stern stance came amid Tokyo‘s threat of additional trade measures against South Korean companies. It heralds a possible deepening of the rift between the neighboring countries.　"There’s no change in the government‘s pos

N. Korean envoy seems alive despite report of execution: S. Korea‘s spy agency

　A North Korean nuclear negotiator, reported to have been executed as punishment for the failed summit in Hanoi with the United States, appears to be alive, South Korea‘s state intelligence agency told lawmakers here Tuesday.　　Citing multiple sources, a Seoul-based newspaper reported in late May that the negotiator, Kim Hyok-chol, had been executed by gunshot in a purge by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un of some officials involved in preparations for his Hanoi meeting with U.S. President D

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N.K. says planned S. Korea-U.S. military drill will affect working-level nuclear talks

North Korea warned Tuesday that the agreed-upon resumption of working-level nuclear talks with the United States would be affected if the U.S. goes ahead with joint military exercises with South Korea.A spokesman of the North‘s foreign ministry made the remark, referring to the 19-2 Dong Maeng exercise slated for next month.The remark indicates the North could reconsider the agreement to resume working-level talks if the planned exercise takes place. The North has long denounced such exerc

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New top U.S. diplomat for East Asia visits Seoul

David Stilwell, the new top U.S. diplomat for East Asia policy, arrived in South Korea on Tuesday for talks with top Seoul officials over the bilateral alliance and ongoing diplomacy for North Korea‘s denuclearization.The three-day visit by the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs came amid rising tensions between Seoul and Tokyo over the latter’s recent export restrictions, which are seen as a retaliatory step following last year‘s top court rulings

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Foreign Policy
2 Japanese defense attaches recalled after secretly obtaining military secrets: report

Two Japanese defense attaches in South Korea have returned back to their home country after they were found to have obtained classified military information, a local daily reported Tuesday. According to Dong-A Ilbo, the Japanese defense attaches obtained 54 classified military documents on information related to North Korea from a former official of the Korea Defense Intelligence Command and 20 documents from a North Korean defector. Following the prosecution’s indictment of the info

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[News Focus] Does Korea-Japan dispute put trilateral cooperation with US at risk?

The worsening diplomatic row between South Korea and Japan has raised concerns that it may threaten security cooperation among Seoul, Washington and Tokyo.On July 4, Japan raised the ante with economic retaliatory measures as tensions heightened over the use of forced labor by Japanese companies during the country’s 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula. Japan’s announcement of restrictions on exports of items used by South Korean chip and smartphone companies ignited an

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Foreign Policy
[Breaking] Ex-lawmaker found dead on mountain in western Seoul: police

Former legislator Chung Doo-un was found dead Wednesday afternoon at a mountain in Hongeun-dong, a neighborhood in Seoul’s western district of Seodaemun, according to police. Seoul Emergency Operations Center said Chung’s wife called police at around 4 p.m. after finding a note he had left behind. Police located him 30 minutes into their search at the mountain near an apartment where he used to live.Chung served as vice mayor of Seoul from 2000-2003, when eventual President Lee Myung

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Politics
Moon defends PM’s overseas trips

President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday highlighted the role of the prime minister in diplomatic affairs, saying the country needs to operate a “two-top” system of summit diplomacy. “With the demand for summit diplomacy increasing rapidly, it has become difficult for the president to handle it alone. Therefore there is a need for the president and the prime minister to divide the roles to work on summit diplomacy together,” Moon said. Moon added that due to his government&

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Yoon Seok-youl appointed chief prosecutor, against opposition

Opposition accuses Moon of dominating prosecution

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Politics
Asking job applicant’s personal information now illegal

From Wednesday, prospective employers cannot ask job seekers for information unrelated to the positions they are being hired for.The Employment Ministry said Tuesday that a revised hiring law prohibits employers from collecting information irrelevant to job performance and engaging in behavior that may hurt fairness in employment practices.Asking about a job applicant’s weight, height, place of birth, marital status and assets is subject to a fine of up to 5 million won ($4,200) under the

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Moon appoints new prosecutor general

President Moon Jae-in appointed Yoon Seok-youl, a reform-minded veteran prosecutor, as new prosecution chief Tuesday, his office announced. The president authorized the appointment of Yoon as prosecutor general, but Yoon's two-year tenure will begin next Thursday, one day after the term of the outgoing prosecutor general Moon Moo-il is to end, according to Cheong Wa Dae. (Yonhap)

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Politics
[Newsmaker] Mitsubishi refuses to discuss compensation for wartime forced labor

The liquidation of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Korean assets is likely to be expedited as it has refused to hold talks on compensation for victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor, according to sources Tuesday.A civic group working with the victims said that the Japanese firm had not responded to the victims’ request for discussions to follow up on the South Korean Supreme Court’s order that it compensate them by the Monday deadline. “Having lost the lawsuit, Mitsub

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Vice minister stresses importance of Seoul-Tokyo relations for regional peace and prosperity

Vice Unification Minister Suh Ho emphasized the importance of bilateral relations between South Korea and Japan on Tuesday to ensure peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia, while expressing support for Tokyo's push for talks with North Korea. Suh made the remark at a forum in Tokyo that was held amid escalating tensions between the two neighbors after Japan's recent move to curb exports of its high-tech parts to South Korea, according to a text of his address provided by the ministry. "Rela

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Vice unification minister to meet Japanese official amid trade dispute

Vice Unification Minister Suh Ho will meet with a Japanese official during his three-day trip to Tokyo this week, a ministry official said Tuesday, amid escalating tensions between the two countries over Japan's export restrictions. Suh left for Japan earlier in the day to give a keynote speech at a side event of the Korea Global Forum for Peace hosted by the unification ministry."A meeting with a Japanese government official is included (in his schedule)," a ministry official said. &q

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Far-right party removes tents from Seoul square

A minor ultra-right party took down its protest tents at a public square in central Seoul early Tuesday just before city officials arrived there to remove them. The Our Republican Party, however, said it would return to Gwanghwamun Square soon to continue their campaign to press for a special probe into the deaths of five conservative protesters in 2017.The government of the capital city warned it would use all physical, legal and administrative means to block their illegal occupation.The party

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