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Moon urges quick resumption of US-N. Korea denuke talks

President Moon Jae-in speaks during a National Security Council (NSC) meeting at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, Monday. YonhapSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed confidence on Monday that the United States and North Korea will eventually reach an agreement on denuclearization, telling his top security officials to find ways to help narrow the gap between the two sides."I believe the North Korea-U.S. negotiations will reach an agreement in the end, but I ask you to work for an early resumption of working-level dialogue between the two because we do not want the stalemate to be prolonged," the president said in a National Security Council (NSC) meeting held at his office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul.The NSC meeting was the first to be chaired by the president in nearly nine months.It came four days after the second meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un failed to reach an agreement.In a press conference shortly after their meeting in Hanoi, Trump said the North demanded all U.S. and international sanctions be lifted in their entirety but only offere

Mar 4, 2019
Moon urges quick resumption of US-N. Korea denuke talks
  • Moon's job approval rating falls to 49% in wake of summit breakdown

Moon's job approval rating falls to 49% in wake of summit breakdown

President Moon Jae-in and his ruling Democratic Party's job approval ratings dropped last week, while that of the main opposition party increased, a poll showed Monday.Moon's job approval rating came to 49.4 percent in a weekly survey conducted by Realmeter.The reading marks a 1.6 percentage-point drop from a week earlier. The latest survey was conducted Monday through Thursday, involving 2,011 adults across the nation.The drop coincided with the second U.S.-North Korea summit held in Hanoi last week, but the local pollster noted the outcome of the Hanoi meeting may have had little or no effect on its latest survey as the meeting ended shortly before the survey was concluded.The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un fell through after both leaders walked from their second bilateral summit with no agreement.The pollster partly attributed the drop in Moon's job approval rating to the national convention of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) to elect its new leadership that may have helped turn the public's attention to more conservat

Mar 4, 2019
Moon's job approval rating falls to 49% in wake of summit breakdown
  • Moon urges quick resumption of US-N. Korea denuke talks

Global Peace Convention discusses unification of Koreas

Moon Hyun-jin, Global Peace Foundation chairman, delivers a keynote speech at the Global Peace Convention Plenary held at the Lotte Hotel on Feb. 28. Courtesy of Global Peace FoundationBy Kim Bo-eunThe Global Peace Convention discussed the issue of unification of South and North Korea in Seoul as crucial talks on denuclearization took place between the U.S. and North Korea in Hanoi last week. The convention was held marking the 100th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement that took place under Japan's colonial rule in 1919.A total of 1,200 participants from 40 nations, including security experts and scholars, took part in the three-day convention hosted by the Global Peace Foundation at the Lotte Hotel and President Hotel in central Seoul, Feb. 26-28. Notable speakers included Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference member Han Fangming, former U.K. ambassador to North Korea John Everard, former Mongolian president Punsalmaa Ochirbat, Russian Academy of Sciences' Center for Korean Studies director Alexander Zhebin, Religious Freedom and Business Foundation Preside

Mar 4, 2019By Kim Bo-eun
Global Peace Convention discusses unification of Koreas

Bipartisan support essential for N. Korea approach

Global Peace Foundation (GPF) Chairman Moon Hyun-jin spoke with The Korea Times in Seoul on Feb. 25. / Korea Times photo by Park Ji-wonBy Park Ji-wonThe following is an edited version of an interview with Global Peace Foundation Chairman Moon Hyun-jin. - ED.Q. What is your basic idea of the current political situation?A. You could say this is a transformative moment in the history of Korea. Indirectly, the position of South Korea and North Korea is already heading toward unification. This is a concern to me in several ways, although I have been working all my life for unification, so has my father, and even my great-great uncle going all the way back to the March 1 Movement in 1919. He was one of the architects of the declaration of independence of Korea. The question is what type of unification will come about.The fact that Moon Jae-in suggested bilateral talks between the U.S. and North Korea was a bad move; having America be front and center in terms of what is happening on the Korean Peninsula. Russia and China wanted to be involved as well. That's why after the first summit in S

Mar 3, 2019By Park Ji-won
  • INTERVIEW 'US should focus on Korean unification'

INTERVIEW 'US should focus on Korean unification'

Global Peace Foundation (GPF) Chairman Moon Hyun-jin spoke with The Korea Times in Seoul on Feb. 25. / Korea Times photo by Park Ji-wonBy Park Ji-wonThe U.S. should push for policies with its allies, including South Korea, to seek an end goal of establishing a unified Korea, says a prominent NGO director.“It should be the responsibility of the global community to help the Korean people, bring a closure to this chapter of colonialism and the Cold War of the peninsula, allow us to develop, fulfill our destiny to create a model nation,” Global Peace Foundation (GPF) Chairman Moon Hyun-jin said in an interview with The Korea Times on Feb 25.Moon is an activist supporting unification through holding seminars and cultural events as well as volunteering for impoverished countries. He also wrote a vision book, “Korean Dream: A Vision for a Unified Korea,” to help others understand his philosophy to move toward unification. His father Moon Sun-myung was the founder of a religious movement known as the unification movement.“With its narrow focus on the singular, u

Mar 3, 2019By Park Ji-won
[INTERVIEW] 'US should focus on Korean unification'
  • Bipartisan support essential for N. Korea approach
  • Let the music play to end hatred, for peace

Summit highlights Trump's 'all-or-nothing' position

In this combination of images are North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi, Vietnam. AP-YonhapBy Kim Yoo-chulSouth Korea lost the most from the collapse of last week's second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, experts said Sunday.They said the U.S. may demand progress on the North's human rights issues as a prerequisite for the removal of sanctions.“Multiple stalled inter-Korean projects require sanctions exemptions. Without progress on North Korea, President Moon Jae-in's top domestic agenda becomes his only success metric for voters, who have already criticized his administration for failing to deliver on economic metrics such as unemployment,” Alison Evans, deputy head of Asia Pacific Country Risk at IHS Market, said in an email.The main sticking point that prevented the U.S. and North Korea from coming to an agreement was most likely the sequencing and extent of “denuclearization” and sanctions relief.“North Korea remains unlikely

Mar 3, 2019By Kim Yoo-chul
Summit highlights Trump's 'all-or-nothing' position
  • Summit breakdown reignites uncertainty

Korea and US axe two annual, large-scale joint military drills

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter flies above the United States Army Garrison-Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province on Apr. 23 last year for a Key Resolve command post exercise. / YonhapBy Lee Min-hyungSouth Korea and the United States have decided to stop holding annual large-scale military exercises in spring, replacing them with smaller-scale ones, in a move to avoid provoking North Korea, the allies' military commands said Sunday. The decision ends the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint drills, the largest joint exercises that usually take place in the first half of the year.Instead, the allies will carry out Dong Maeng combined command post exercises as a replacement for the two, according to Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and the U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC). The word means alliance in English, and the new exercise will focus on the strategic, operational and tactical aspects of military operations on the peninsula, according to the allies.“Dong Maeng has been modified from the previously held spring exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle,” the CFC said in a pr

Mar 3, 2019By Lee Min-hyung
Korea and US axe two annual, large-scale joint military drills
  • Summit breakdown reignites uncertainty

Kim Jong-un's image makeover palpable in Hanoi

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speak during a dinner at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi Hotel in the Vietnamese capital, Wednesday. / YonhapBy Lee Min-hyungThe latest summit between Washington and Pyongyang was a half success for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, as he achieved a big image makeover by actively engaging in a formal diplomatic schedule there despite the breakdown in his denuclearization talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.Since taking power in 2011, Kim had been regarded as one of the world's toughest dictators, apparently orchestrating the assassination of his half-brother and the execution of his uncle.Until the end of 2017, the young third-generation dictator of the Kim dynasty was also seen as the most reclusive leader, making few public appearances and not actively taking part in diplomatic engagement with other leaders.But starting last year, he began altering his negative image by expressing a willingness to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, and holding talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald

Mar 3, 2019By Lee Min-hyung
Kim Jong-un's image makeover palpable in Hanoi
  • Summit breakdown reignites uncertainty

Former journalist becomes R&B singer

Singer-songwriter Sobae       /       Courtesy of Ilzo & COBy Park Jin-haiSobae, real name Kim Ji-young, is an aspiring Korean-American singer-songwriter. But one thing surprising fans of her music is her unlikely former career ― she was a journalist. The 26-year-old R&B singer chose to pursue music as a career with her 2017 debut single “Switch Up,” leaving behind her promising future as a broadcast journalist. “Everyone thought it was nuts. They were like why are you doing this right now? I thought about this 100 times,” the artist, a graduate of the master's program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, said during a recent interview with The Korea Times.As a student journalist, she's met various people from gang members to politicians and lawyers to homeless people. When she was in Chicago, she and a camera partner often went to the south side, one of the most dangerous areas of the city, risking her own safety for a good story. She has recorded narrations on the road, and used an editing

Mar 2, 2019By Park Jin-hai
Former journalist becomes R&B singer

New ambassadors to be appointed for Japan, China

By Kim Bo-eunJang Ha-sungNam Gwan-pyoFormer second deputy director for National Security Nam Gwan-pyo is likely to be named ambassador to Japan, while Jang Ha-sung, the former presidential policy chief, will take up the post in China, according to sources, Friday. President Moon Jae-in appears to think that appointing a new ambassador to Japan will help ease the current strain in bilateral relations that has arisen over conflicts involving Korean sex slaves and rulings on forced labor victims. Nam served as first secretary at the Korean Embassy in Japan in 1992, and had been the second deputy director for national security since the launch of the Moon administration until Thursday, when he was replaced by former trade minister Kim Hyun-chong.Former First Deputy Director for National Security Lee Sang-chul may be appointed as ambassador to Austria. He was replaced by retired Army Lt. Gen. Kim You-geun. Kim was in charge of overseeing the relocation of the U.S. Forces Korea, at the defense ministry, before he was tapped for the position.Cheong Wa Dae Spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom said "Both

Mar 1, 2019By Kim Bo-eun
New ambassadors to be appointed for Japan, China
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