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Fri, August 7, 2020 | 21:18

Korea to export $500,000 worth of hereditary disease medicine to Iran

Korea to export $500,000 worth of hereditary disease medicine to Iran

South Korea will this week send to Iran US$500,000 worth of medicine used to treat a hereditary disease, the foreign ministry said Thursday, in the first such humanitarian exports to the country since the United States tightened anti-Tehran sanctions last year. The medicine to treat Gaucher's disease will be sent by air on Friday. The ministry also expects another batch of ex...

2020-05-28 16:06

Moon's adviser says antagonizing China will start new Cold War

Moon's adviser says antagonizing China will start new Cold War

South Korea's alliance with the United States is more important than its strategic partnership with China, but antagonizing Beijing will start a new Cold War on the Korean Peninsula, a special security adviser to President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday. Speaking from Seoul, Moon Chung-in was addressing the dilemma Seoul faces in its diplomatic relations with Washington and Beiji...

2020-05-28 14:23

Korea 'well aware' of concerns over tensions amid US-Sino rift: minister

Korea 'well aware' of concerns over tensions amid US-Sino rift: minister

Korea 'well aware' of concerns over tensions amid US-Sino rift: minister

The government was set to hold an interagency meeting Thursday to discuss countermeasures against rising tensions between the United States and China amid concerns South Korea is caught in the middle of the two major powers and would be pressured to take sides. The diplomatic strategy session, to be presided over by First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Sei-young, is expected to fo...

2020-05-28 10:13

Moon's adviser says antagonizing China will start new Cold War

Japan extends entry restrictions for Korean visitors

Japan extends entry restrictions for Korean visitors

South Korea's foreign ministry on Monday expressed regret over Japan's decision to extend its entry restrictions for South Korean visitors over the new coronavirus. Earlier in the day, Japan notified South Korea of its decision to extend the restrictions, including the suspension of a visa-waiver program and a 14-day quarantine for arrivals from the country, by another month ...

2020-05-26 09:48

Remains of four Korean teachers killed in Annapurna avalanche return home

Remains of four Korean teachers killed in Annapurna avalanche return home

The remains of four South Korean teachers found dead in an avalanche in the Himalayas returned home Saturday.The four victims, all of them school teachers in South Chungcheong Province, had left South Korea on Jan. 13 for volunteering work in Nepal. Four days later, they went missing in a deadly avalanche while trekking in Annapurna.

2020-05-23 20:05

Korea, Myanmar may probe presumed 1987 jet crash wreckage

Korea, Myanmar may probe presumed 1987 jet crash wreckage

The Korean and Myanmar governments are discussing investigating wreckage in the sea off Myanmar - presumed to be from a Korean Air flight that disappeared in 1987, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

2020-05-22 15:43

Cheong Wa Dae says it is still early to respond to Trump's new geoeconomic strategy

Cheong Wa Dae says it is still early to respond to Trump's new geoeconomic strategy

Cheong Wa Dae has no "conclusive" position on U.S. President Donald Trump administration's stated push for the Economic Prosperity Network, an official said Friday, reflecting Seoul's cautious approach toward the sensitive issue apparently involving China. The initiative is understood to be "still in a planning stage" as part of various ideas on the economic sector from a glo...

2020-05-22 11:02

Korea leads multilateral group launch against infectious diseases

Korea leads multilateral group launch against infectious diseases

The government is accelerating its efforts to establish an international mechanism aimed at effectively responding to global infectious diseases with the launch of another Korea-led multilateral cooperation group.

Kang Seung-woo | 2020-05-21 16:13

'ROK-US alliance helps pull through pandemic'

'ROK-US alliance helps pull through pandemic'

The decades-old bilateral ties between Korea and the United States are further evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to senior government officials from both countries, Wednesday.

Kang Seung-woo | 2020-05-20 16:59

Japanese diplomat summoned over disputed island claim

Japanese diplomat summoned over disputed island claim

Hirohisa Soma, a senior official from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, arrives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tuesday, upon being summoned by the Korean government over Japan's claim in its latest annual diplomatic book that Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo are Japanese territory. The government expressed its regret over Tokyo's repeated territorial claims over Dokdo, a...

Jung Da-min | 2020-05-19 17:12

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