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Ex-Prime Minister Hwang elected new leader of main opposition party

 Former Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn celebrates after being announced the winner of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party's leadership election at the KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday.  YonhapBy Park Ji-wonFormer Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn was elected as the new leader of the largest opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP), Wednesday, pledging to unify conservatives and stand against the Moon Jae-in administration.“From the moment I step down from this podium, I will start to fight against the tyranny of the Moon Jae-in administration to protect the country and its people. I will start a journey to win a landslide victory in the 2020 general elections and seize the power in 2022,” Hwang said in his acceptance speech.“I will also seek the unification of liberal conservatives.”Hwang won 50 percent of votes, or 68,713, in the election beating out his two rivals ― former Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon who came in second with 42,653 votes and far-right lawmaker Kim Jin-tae with 25,924 votes ― at the party's national convention. Originally, eight co

Feb 27, 2019By Park Ji-won
Ex-Prime Minister Hwang elected new leader of main opposition party

Award-winning Japanese lawyer urges Tokyo to admit wrongdoings

Shuichi AdachiBy Park Ji-wonA series of historic rulings ordering Japanese firms to compensate Korean forced laborers during Japanese colonial rule have been made from the end of last year. Shuichi Adachi, a 60-year-old Japanese human rights lawyer and head of the group of Korean and Japanese lawyers who worked together to represent the victims since 1994, contributed to winning those cases. Honoring the dedication of Adachi and his colleagues, a South Korean reporters' club in the law field gave the Korea-Japan lawyer alliance this year's prize for best people in law in January. The club thought highly of the defense counsel's years of contributions to human rights issues such as wartime sex slavery, forced laborers, victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ethnic Koreans' education subsidies in Japan.Adachi remained humble about his achievements but strongly urged Japanese society to admit the illegality of its colonial rule of Korea to overcome conflicts between Korea and Japan.“The lawyer alliance between Japan and Korea was able to be formed. And i

Feb 27, 2019By Park Ji-won
Award-winning Japanese lawyer urges Tokyo to admit wrongdoings

Kim Jong-un takes Vietnam as case study

A Vietnamese policeman patrols near the Hanoi Metropole Hotel, a location thought to be the venue for the second United States-North Korea summit, Feb. 27. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-sukNK leader to stay in Vietnam until SaturdayBy Kim Yoo-chulHANOI ― North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will stay in Vietnam until Saturday, according to North Korea's state media and Vietnamese government officials, Wednesday.The Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim Jong-un will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump for their historic second summit on Feb. 27 and 28 and stay in Vietnam until March 2.No information was available on Kim's itinerary during his stay, but sources here told The Korea Times he plans to visit factories and popular local attractions to get a glimpse of Vietnam's economic development.In many ways, Kim's visit to Vietnam will be similar to his trip to Singapore last summer. The first Trump-Kim meeting failed to produce substantial results, but the summit was also an opportunity for the North Korean leadership to get an impression of Singaporean capitalism.A man walks past a T

Feb 27, 2019By Kim Yoo-chul
Kim Jong-un takes Vietnam as case study
  • Vietnam, host country with shades from control to reform

South Korea, UAE to expand economic relations

President Moon Jae-in and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi walk toward the venue of a welcoming event for the crown prince at Cheong Wa Dae, Wednesday. The welcoming ceremony was followed by a summit where the two leaders vowed to expand economic cooperation. YonhapBy Kim Bo-eunPresident Moon Jae-in and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi vowed to boost and diversify bilateral economic cooperation, at a summit held at Cheong Wa Dae, Wednesday. The meeting took place on the second day of a two-day official visit to Seoul by the de facto leader of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Crown Prince Mohammed is also the deputy supreme commander of the UAE's Armed Forces.They spoke about cooperation in the energy, construction and defense industries that have been key to the development of bilateral relations thus far and shared hopes to expand this to other fields, according to Cheong Wa Dae pool reports.“I wish to expand the countries' cooperation to new technologies and new industrial sectors that will prepare the countries for the Fourth Indust

Feb 27, 2019By Kim Bo-eun
South Korea, UAE to expand economic relations

North Korea has tremendous economic potential: Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un following a meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi Feb. 27, 2019. AFP-YonhapBy Kim Yoo-chul, Lee Min-hyungHANOI ― Washington is ready to help Pyongyang develop its economy, U.S. President Donald Trump told North Korean leader Kim Jong-un when they met Wednesday at the start of their two-day summit in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.“I think that your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited,” Trump said. “And I think that you will have a tremendous future with your country, a great leader. I look forward to watching it happen and helping it to happen. And we will help it to happen.”Asked by a reporter if the two sides might formally end the Korean War, Trump said, “We will see.”Kim said he was sure they would produce a “great outcome which everyone welcomes” in Hanoi.The leaders then had a one-on-one meeting for 20 minutes before dining together. They will have extended summit talks today and possibly adopt a joint sta

Feb 27, 2019By Kim Yoo-chul
North Korea has tremendous economic potential: Trump
  • Moon's adviser cautious about North Korea-US deal
  • Trump, Kim may agree on opening liaison offices
  • PHOTOS Like grandfather, like grandson - in Hanoi

Trump, Kim may agree on opening liaison offices

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the regime's embassy in Hanoi, Tuesday, as part of his official schedule in Vietnam. Kim is there for a two-day summit from Wednesday with U.S. President Donald Trump. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-sukBy Lee Min-hyungHANOI ― Expectations are high that U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will reach an agreement to open liaison offices in Washington and Pyongyang during their second summit as the first step in establishing bilateral diplomatic relations.The need to establish the offices has surfaced in recent months, after the two failed to make progress in denuclearization talks due in part to the lack of a direct and real-time communication channel.This has raised the possibility for Trump and Kim to reach a consensus in opening the offices during their two-day summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, which ends today.Once joint liaison offices are established, they will serve as de facto embassies. Even if they hold limited authority compared to actual diplomatic missions, their opening will be the first step in building normal dip

Feb 27, 2019By Lee Min-hyung
Trump, Kim may agree on opening liaison offices
  • Moon's adviser cautious about North Korea-US deal
  • PHOTOS Like grandfather, like grandson - in Hanoi
  • North Korea has tremendous economic potential: Trump
  • Trump, Kim open second nuclear summit with handshake, smiles

Moon's adviser cautious about North Korea-US deal

By Kim Bo-eunMoon Chung-inPresidential security adviser Moon Chung-in said it would be difficult to produce a timeline for North Korea's denuclearization, adding it would be more realistic to make a timeline for nuclear disarmament negotiations. "Making a roadmap for negotiations will be much more realistic than making a roadmap for denuclearization itself," the special adviser for unification, diplomacy and national security affairs said in an interview with RFA in Washington, D.C., Tuesday (local time).Moon said Pyongyang does not have concrete plans for denuclearization, and that the ongoing negotiations between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump and follow-up discussions should address this.He said if Pyongyang dismantles its Yongbyon nuclear facility and other sites and facilities including centifuges for enriching uranium in a verifiable way, the U.S. would make "considerably great concessions.""In this case, the U.S. would be able to considerably ease sanctions, in addition to making a declaration ending the Korean War and opening a U.S. liaison of

Feb 27, 2019By Kim Bo-eun
Moon's adviser cautious about North Korea-US deal
  • Trump, Kim to meet this evening in Hanoi
  • Trump, Kim may agree on opening liaison offices
  • North Korea has tremendous economic potential: Trump
  • Trump, Kim open second nuclear summit with handshake, smiles

Court reviews former top justice's bail request

Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae heading for the Seoul Central District Court in southern Seoul, Tuesday, to attend a hearing. YonhapA Seoul court held a hearing Tuesday to decide whether to grant bail to former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae, who is detained pending a trial on power abuse charges.Yang, who headed the top court from 2011-17, was arrested on Jan. 24 on charges of interfering with trials seeking political leverage in lobbying powerful officials in the previous Park Geun-hye government to support his plan to establish a separate court of appeals.The disgraced retired justice applied for bail last Tuesday. His lawyer said Yang needs the time and physical freedom to better prepare for the trial.He insisted that Yang presents a low flight risk as the prosecution has obtained ample evidence through a series of raids and also given his social status as a former top justice.The documents on Yang's case presented by the prosecution to the court are known to be at least 200,000 pages long.Prosecutors argue that he should remain confined considering th

Feb 26, 2019
Court reviews former top justice's bail request

Group helping slain Kim Jong-nam's son to make important announcement this week

A man claiming to be Kim Han-sol, son of assassinated North Korean exile Kim Jong-nam, speaks about his whereabouts in a clip uploaded to YouTube on March 7, 2017.  Screengrab of Cheollima Civil Defense's Youtube channelBy Park Ji-wonA civic organization known to be protecting a man claiming to be Kim Han-sol, son of assassinated North Korean exile Kim Jong-nam, said Monday it will make an important announcement this week.“Some comrades from a Western country asked our organization for help. It was a high-risk situation, but we were able to manage it. We will have an important announcement this week. Please contact us when you need help,” Cheollima Civil Defense said online Monday.It didn't give details about the announcement but said in another post titled “Promise,” “People who keep promises for us need not worry.” The group became famous for uploading Kim Han-sol's announcement of his escape from the regime on YouTube right after his father was killed in Malaysia in 2017 allegedly by North Korea-related assassins. The organization is also k

Feb 26, 2019By Park Ji-won
Group helping slain Kim Jong-nam's son to make important announcement this week

US demanded North Korea to rejoin NPT: sources

Children raise national flags of North Korea and Vietnam at the Vietnam-Korea Friendship Kindergarten in Hanoi, Vietnam, Feb. 26. They hope to show off their singing and dancing to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during the North Korean leader's stay in the Southeast Asian country. The kindergarten was founded in 1978 with financial assistance from North Korea. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-sukBy Kim Yoo-chulHANOI — The United States has demanded North Korea rejoin the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) as one of the key conditions assist in verifying the “phased dismantling” of its nuclear program, two diplomatic sources said Tuesday.“A sort of end-of-war declaration is very likely as it would be political symbolism. The confrontation seems to be over, and North Korea has been asked to rejoin the NPT,” one source said on condition of anonymity.North Korea left the treaty in 2003 after breaking its commitment not to acquire nuclear weapons. Re-entry to the NPT will restore the North’s full cooperation required in inspections by the International

Feb 26, 2019By Kim Yoo-chul
US demanded North Korea to rejoin NPT: sources
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