Monday
January 20, 2020
Gangnam-gu, South Korea
Fine Dust :
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha asked for the international community’s cooperation in moving the peace process on the Korean Peninsula forward, as she kicked off a series of virtual Asean-related meetings Wednesday.
Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha will participate in a series of annual Asean meetings this week to discuss coronavirus responses and regional issues as Sino-U.S. tensions capture increased attention.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday called the United States a "mastermind of cybercrime" as it responded to a report detailing Pyongyang's efforts to hack banks.
Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Monday apologized for sexual abuse allegations against a Korean diplomat posted in New Zealand in 2017.
Choi Jong-kun, a 46-year-old academic and former key Blue House aide, quietly kicked off his first day as the youngest-ever Korean first vice foreign minister Tuesday.
Yang Jiechi, a Politburo member of the Chinese Communist Party, is planning to visit Seoul as early as next week, possibly to discuss a future visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping later in the year.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday welcomed South Korea's participation in an expanded Group of Seven, or G7, summit after bilateral talks with Seoul’s top diplomat in Berlin.
Making her first overseas trip in half a year, Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha discussed bilateral cooperation and international issues with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Monday in Berlin.
Seoul’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday there have been no reports of any Korean casualties in Lebanon after a massive explosion in Beirut killed more than 100 people and injured thousands of others.
Seoul and Tokyo are looking at an extended period of rocky relations after a Daegu court Tuesday finished serving notice on Nippon Steel that its assets in Korea would be seized to compensate wartime forced labor victims.
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