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    N. Korea calls denuclearization 'irreversibly finalized' matter

    North Korea on Sunday called denuclearization an "irreversibly finalized" matter as it denounced recent talks between South Korea and the United States that reaffirmed the goal of the North's denuclearization. An unnamed spokesperson of the North's foreign ministry issued the criticism, after South Korea and the United States reaffirmed the shared goal at the bilateral Nuclear Consultative Group meeting on Thursday. "It is an unreasonable talk and fantastic daydream to mention about disarming the other belligerent party's nuclear weapons," the spokesperson said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "The U.S. and its vassal forces' meaningless rhetoric against the DPRK and cooperation in posing a nuclear threat to it can never affect the irreversible position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state," the spokesperson said. "The 'denuclearization' is an irreversibly finalized matter." DPRK stands for the North's official name — the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The spokesperson also took issue with the bilateral Extended Deterrence Dialogue between the U

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    N. Korea calls denuclearization 'irreversibly finalized' matter
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    S. Korea, US, Japan hold talks on N. Korea

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    S. Korea, US, Japan hold talks on N. Korea
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    Lee says S. Korea, Italy are 'optimal partners' for business cooperation

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    Lee says S. Korea, Italy are 'optimal partners' for business cooperation
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    Lee hopes S. Korea, Italy will work together to promote free trade, multilateralism

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    Lee hopes S. Korea, Italy will work together to promote free trade, multilateralism
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    Korea, Italy sign MOUs to enhance advanced science cooperation, explore joint projects in Africa

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    Korea, Italy sign MOUs to enhance advanced science cooperation, explore joint projects in Africa
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US industry group calls on USTR to urge Korea retract online platform regulation proposals

An American industry group has asked the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to urge Korea to withdraw its digital platform regulatory proposals, stressing they pose an "unnecessary irritant" to the two countries' relationship and could breach a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). The Coalition of Services Industries (CSI) submitted the comments to the USTR last week to assist in the review and identification of "unfair trade practices and harm from non-reciprocal trade arrangements." The USTR is likely to examine the case for its calculation of "reciprocal" tariffs for Korea set to be rolled out on April 2. In late 2023, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) proposed enacting an act aimed at tightening oversight over market-dominant online platform businesses to ensure fair competition. After pushback from U.S. stakeholders and others, it announced a new proposal in September to revise the country's existing key anti-trust law instead of seeking new legislation. "Concerningly, the new proposal still retains problematic elements from the ex-ante proposal, such as disproportiona

Mar 21, 2025By yonhap
US industry group calls on USTR to urge Korea retract online platform regulation proposals
North Korea

N. Korea raps US questionnaires on communist links for UN aid groups as new version of McCarthyism

North Korea denounced the United States on Friday for sending questionnaires to U.N. aid agencies to ask whether they have any links to communism or an anti-U.S. stance, calling the move "the 21st century version of McCarthyism." The U.S. Office of Management and Budget sent 36 questions to international organizations, including the U.N.'s refugee agency and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to ask them to state whether they have "anti-American" beliefs or affiliation, according to British broadcaster BBC. The move came as the Trump administration is seeking to slash foreign aid as part of its push to cut the size of the federal government. Jo Chol-su, North Korea's ambassador to its mission at the United Nations office in Geneva, condemned the U.S. for using international organizations as a tool for implementing its strategy for hegemony, according to the Korean Central News Agency. "The U.S. is trying to subordinate the international organizations as the body executing "America first" policy which moves according to its baton and serves its interests," Jo said, calling the

Mar 21, 2025By yonhap
N. Korea raps US questionnaires on communist links for UN aid groups as new version of McCarthyism
Foreign Affairs

FM Cho travels to Tokyo for trilateral meeting with Japanese, Chinese top diplomats

Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul left for Tokyo on Friday to take part in a trilateral meeting with his Japanese and Chinese counterparts to discuss ways to boost cooperation, Seoul's foreign ministry said. Cho will join Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for the three-way meeting in the Japanese capital Saturday, the first of its kind since the last one held in November 2023 in Korea's southeastern port city of Busan. The ministers will assess the progress of trilateral cooperation and exchange views on the future development of the tripartite cooperation, as well as regional and international issues, according to the Korean foreign ministry. They are also likely to have broad discussions on ways to boost three-way cooperation in economy, culture and people-to-people exchanges, and issues related to the Korean Peninsula. Also expected to be discussed are trilateral coordination efforts to ensure a smooth hosting of a summit meeting of the three nations' leaders, which Japan is set to hold later this year. On the sidelines, Cho is scheduled to meet se

Mar 21, 2025By yonhap
FM Cho travels to Tokyo for trilateral meeting with Japanese, Chinese top diplomats
North Korea

2 N. Koreans aboard wooden boat discovered in S. Korean waters in early March: military officials

Two North Koreans aboard a wooden boat drifting in the Yellow Sea were discovered earlier this month and are now under questioning, military officials said Friday. The military took the two men into custody after a P-3 maritime patrol aircraft discovered the boat in waters 170 kilometers west of the Eocheong Island, south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto inter-Korean maritime border, on March 7. The two men are believed to have likely crossed into South Korean waters accidentally and haven't clearly expressed their intent to defect to South Korea, as they have been under a joint probe with authorities. The government is currently reviewing measures to communicate with North Korea on their possible repatriation if they wish to return, considering inter-Korean hotlines have remained severed since April 2023. (Yonhap)

Mar 21, 2025By yonhap
2 N. Koreans aboard wooden boat discovered in S. Korean waters in early March: military officials
North Korea

N. Korea warns of using 'deadliest military means' against S. Korea-US military drills

North Korea on Friday threatened to use the "deadliest military means" against joint annual military drills between South Korea and the United States. North Korea's defense ministry issued the threat in an article published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a day after the allies wrapped up the 11-day Freedom Shield exercise, which aimed to bolster joint defense capabilities against North Korean military threats. The ministry described the exercise as "military provocations," citing drills aimed at destroying secret underground tunnel networks and removing nuclear weapons. "This proves that the joint military exercises ... are no more than a rehearsal of war of aggression aimed at invading and occupying the DPRK from A to Z," the ministry said. DPRK stands for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The country's law stipulates "what means and methods should be used in contingency to remove hostile forces threatening the existence of our state," the article said, adding it is the armed forces' mission to strictly implement the law. "All options for

Mar 21, 2025By yonhap
N. Korea warns of using 'deadliest military means' against S. Korea-US military drills
Foreign Affairs

Industry minister vows utmost efforts to remove Korea from DOE 'sensitive country' list

Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun pledged utmost efforts Thursday to remove South Korea from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s "sensitive country" list, while noting Seoul's plan to seek a "constructive alternative" should the country's designation not be reversed. Ahn plans to meet Energy Secretary Chris Wright on the day to discuss South Korea's placement on the "Sensitive and Other Designated Countries List (SCL)." He is also set to have talks with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over tariff issues on Friday. "Although we will engage in consultations in a direction toward the deletion (of South Korea) from the list as much as we can, but if that is not possible, we will seek to craft a constructive alternative," Ahn told reporters upon arrival at Dulles International Airport near Washington. "We will make our utmost efforts to find an optimal option to ensure that science, technology and industrial cooperation between South Korea and the United States will not be hindered," he added. The DOE confirmed last week that the preceding Biden administration added South Korea to the SCL in

Mar 21, 2025By yonhap
Industry minister vows utmost efforts to remove Korea from DOE 'sensitive country' list
North Korea

N. Korea successfully test-fired surface-to-air missile system: KCNA

North Korea has successfully test-fired its latest surface-to-air missile system, state media reported Friday, as South Korea and the United States wrapped up their annual joint military drills. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the launch the previous day of the anti-aircraft missile system that was recently put into full-scale production, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). North Korea said the test-firing was aimed at examining the "comprehensive performance" of the system, claiming that it proved the missile's combat fast response is "advantageous" and "highly reliable." Photos released alongside the report showed what appeared to be a launched missile hitting a target and exploding, and Kim smiled contentedly apparently at the test result. Kim said the country's army will be equipped with "another major defense weapons system with laudable combat performance," expressing gratitude to the research group in charge and relevant munitions industry enterprise for strengthening national defense capability, the KCNA said. South Korea's military said it had detected the

Mar 21, 2025By yonhap
N. Korea successfully test-fired surface-to-air missile system: KCNA
North Korea

Hundreds of injured Russian soldiers receive treatment in NK: report

Hundreds of injured Russian soldiers have undergone treatment at medical facilities in North Korea amid Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine, a Russian news outlet reported Thursday, citing a senior Russian diplomat. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko made the remarks at the North Korean Embassy in Russia on Wednesday during a ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of a treaty on economic and cultural cooperation between the Soviet Union and North Korea, according to Russia's TASS news agency. "The facts that hundreds of Russian soldiers have undergone rehabilitation at North Korea's best medical centers ... are a vivid example of the brotherly nature of the current relations between our countries," Rudenko was quoted as saying. Rudenko, who visited Pyongyang earlier this week, said he held talks with North Korean officials on "bilateral cooperation, international and regional problems," and thanked Pyongyang for its support for what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine, according to the report. The two countries have bolstered ties since signing a comprehe

Mar 20, 2025By yonhap
Hundreds of injured Russian soldiers receive treatment in NK: report
North Korea

N. Korea slams Japan for considering deploying long-range missiles on Kyushu

North Korea on Thursday denounced Japan for considering deploying long-range missiles on its southwestern island of Kyushu, warning that the move would make it exposed to attacks by neighboring countries as a "common target." Japanese media earlier reported that Japan is considering the deployment of long-range missiles on Kyushu in an effort to secure "counterstrike capabilities." The deployment of such missiles, capable of striking North Korea and China's coastal areas, is expected to start in March 2026. The chief of policy section at the institute of Japanese studies of North Korea's foreign ministry issued a statement condemning Japan's "reckless possession of preemptive attack capability," according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Japan's "'bold action' is a dangerous provocation that will bring about constant escalation of tension by sowing the spark of new military conflict in Northeast Asia," the KCNA said. North Korea claimed the move proved that Japan has been seeking its "wild ambition of militarism" while making a feint of being a "pacifist nation to the internatio

Mar 20, 2025By yonhap
N. Korea slams Japan for considering deploying long-range missiles on Kyushu
Foreign Affairs

Korea to seek removal from US list of 'sensitive' countries

Korea will work to seek removal from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) list of "sensitive" countries and expand bilateral energy cooperation, Seoul's industry minister said Thursday. Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun made the remarks as he departed for Washington on a two-day trip to meet U.S. officials, including Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, among others. "We will look for various alternatives, including getting an exclusion from the DOE list, to prevent the issue from negatively affecting local industries and technological cooperation (between Korea and the U.S.)," Ahn said. His trip comes amid concerns that the DOE's listing of Korea on its "sensitive and other designated countries list" may lead to possible new restrictions on scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries. It also comes only three weeks after his last trip to the U.S. "The industry ministry understands the inclusion was made due to technical security issues as the foreign ministry said earlier," Ahn said, noting he plans to address the U.S. administr

Mar 20, 2025By yonhap
Korea to seek removal from US list of 'sensitive' countries
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