Monday
January 20, 2020
Gangnam-gu, South Korea
Fine Dust :
U.S. President Joe Biden nominated a new special envoy for North Korean human rights, the White House announced Monday, moving to fill a post that’s been vacant for six years.
President Yoon Suk Yeol's comments about nuclear weapons as a potential option for Seoul have run into headwinds from Washington, which insists its goal is the total denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul and Washington officials said they are not planning to hold "joint nuclear exercises" Tuesday, after contradictory remarks from the countries' leaders. But they confirmed they are working on plans that will involve U.S. nuclear assets.
Politics is about caring for people and solving their problems. The age-old conundrum cannot be solved by fairness and common sense alone, as Yoon has believed. It’s time to start over.
U.S. President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit an SK siltron plant in Michigan.
After Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated his earlier position that North Korea’s “reasonable concerns about security” should be addressed in a balanced way, President Yoon Suk-yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden face a permanent dilemma.
President Yoon Suk-yeol called on China to play a more "active and constructive role" on North Korean nuclear and missile threats in his first summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Indonesia Tuesday.
The United States will have to take certain actions that will be "more defensive" should North Korea conduct a nuclear test, President Joe Biden said Monday.
The leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States agreed to share information about North Korean missiles in Cambodia Sunday.
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