LG Chem and Eni Sustainable Mobility are carrying out technical and economic feasibility assessments for a possible biorefinery in South Korea. The plant could be completed by 2026; the final investment decision is expected by 2024. The possible biorefinery could have a capacity of around 400.000 tonnes of biological raw materials per year and […]
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was in Seoul to ask President Yoon Suk-yeol to increase military support for Ukraine. The request has become urgent because so much ammunition is needed in view of the Russian spring offensive. To date, Seoul has signed important agreements for the supply of tanks, aircraft and other weapons [...]
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Ansa reported that North Korea today launched two new ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan. The alarm was raised by the South Korean army general staff: two short-range ballistic missiles launched from the Samsok area, in Pyongyang, towards the Sea of Japan. The new launches [...]
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The intelligence chiefs of the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Seoul behind closed doors this week. A very important meeting to bring South Korea and Japan closer together after the diplomatic quarrel of the last two years that risked compromising intelligence cooperation between the two countries. The agreement, known as [...]
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GSOMIA pact between South Korea and Japan terminated South Korea formally stopped sharing information with Japan as relations between the two countries reached their lowest point since they formally recognized each other in 1968. Seoul's decision is the latest in a series of [...]
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The son of a former South Korean government minister defected to North Korea. The first case of a South Korean citizen's desertion to North Korea. It is even rarer for such high-profile Korean citizens to defect to North Korea. The defector is #Choe In-guk, son of [...]
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The Pentagon said the United States and South Korea have indefinitely suspended two joint exercise programs as a demonstration of support for diplomatic negotiations with North Korea. "To support the implementation of the summit results in Singapore, and in coordination with our ally, Korea of [...]
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After the promises made by Donald Trump to Kim Jong-Un during the historic summit in Singapore, the United States and South Korea have confirmed the "stop" of the military exercises scheduled for next August called "Ulchi Freedom Guardian". The Minister of Defense of the South explained that "South Korea and the [...]
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The summit between the Northern leader, Kim Jong-Un, and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, is scheduled for the end of April, the first since 2007. Pyongyang is also willing to denuclearize and suspend missile tests, should it restart. the negotiation with the USA. This was made known by the National Security Advisor [...]
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North Korea shipped coal using a Russian route last year. Unloaded in two Moscow ports, the coal was then transported to South Korea and Japan, in a probable violation of UN sanctions. The UN Security Council had banned coal exports on 5 August [...]
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Several North Korean ice hockey players arrived in South Korea today to join South Korean colleagues in the joint team that will participate in next month's Winter Olympics. According to what was announced by the Ministry of Unification, the athletes crossed the border at the industrial area of Kaesong, together with a sports delegation [...]
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) continued to send messages of detente, calling on Seoul to work with the north to create the conditions for future national reunification. The official daily Rodong Sinmun said in an article that achieving national reconciliation and unity is the key to creating an environment [...]
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According to reports from the South Korean media, South Korea has asked North Korea to start talks between "military" to "eliminate or reduce the risk of misjudgment" thus easing the tensions that have arisen around the Korean peninsula. This is what was proposed during the high-level meeting, still in [...]
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There is agreement for the high-level meeting between representatives of North Korea and South Korea scheduled for next Tuesday who will compete to discuss the participation of North Korean athletes in the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games that will take place next month. As reported by the Yonhap agency, Pyongyang sent a list [...]
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The meeting of the main Chinese and South Korean mediators on the crisis on the Korean peninsula and the possible opening towards North Korea is scheduled for today. The meeting will be attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou, special representative of the Chinese government for the affairs of the Korean peninsula who already had, upon his arrival, [...]
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South Korea will consider measures to increase capital outflows if the won continues to rise in value against the dollar. Three experts said that this intervention is needed to help the national economy almost exclusively dependent on foreign trade. While operations to curb the volatility of the won will continue, [...]
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in welcomed the New Year's announcement by Kim Jong Un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), ordering government officials to resume dialogue and work out follow-up measures. up. Moon said at the first cabinet meeting this year that Kim responded [...]
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South Korean troops fired as North Korean soldiers attempted to locate the soldier who had previously defected to the South across the border, a spokesman for the Seoul Defense Ministry said. The South Korean army first sent out a warning with the loudspeaker system, seeing the border guards approaching the [...]
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According to the Nova agency, the trade delegations of Seoul and London will meet tomorrow to start negotiations aimed at the adoption of a bilateral free trade agreement, in view of the abandonment of the European Union by the United Kingdom (Brexit ). This was announced by the South Korean Ministry of Commerce today. South Korea [...]
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The United States, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of ballistic missile testing this week as tensions rise in the region over North Korea's rapidly growing weapons programs, Nova reported. This was reported by the respective ministries of defense relaunched by the local press. Korea [...]
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As announced by the Nova agency, the South Korean Defense could advance the request to the United States to reschedule the calendar of joint military exercises for the first months of next year, postponing the maneuvers that would coincide with the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games . This was reported today by a South Korean government source quoted [...]
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According to reports from the Nova agency, the North Korean Army violated the 1953 armistice, which ended the Korean War, in an attempt to prevent the desertion of a soldier last week. This is what emerges from the investigations carried out by the South Korean authorities starting from 13 November last. According to sources cited by the South Korean agency "Yonhap", military [...]
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A North Korean soldier fled the regime, crossed the Demilitarized Zone on the border between the two Koreas but was hit by six shots from North Korean forces. The US-led United Nations Command, which monitors the Panmunjom border area, where the escape occurred, explained [...]
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According to what Nova has learned, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha today signed a new individual partnership and cooperation program: the South Korean Foreign Ministry announced in a press release, according to to which the document, which will replace the previous agreement dating back [...]
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Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine president, worried about the situation on the Korean peninsula, which in recent months has worsened due to Pyongyang's missile launches and nuclear tests, conducted in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, has called on Washington to a constructive political dialogue with Pyongyang, in view of its [...]
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South Korea's expectations of having a general in command of the US and Korean armed forces in the event of a conflict have been disregarded by US Defense Secretary James Mattis' recent visit to Seoul. The seal of the establishment of a joint military command in the event of war with command was expected [...]
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Mgr. Hyginus Kim Hee-Joong, archbishop of Gwangju and president of the Korean Bishops' Conference, in an interview with Antonio Spadaro, director of Catholic Civilization, says that "many Koreans think that all the superpowers involved are using this tension with Korea. North for their national interests ". The prelate, who also tells of the letter from the South Korean president [...]
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US President Donald Trump will cancel his visit to the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas, South Korean and US government sources reported. Apparently there would no longer be the minimum security conditions. The president of the United States intended to visit the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas this month [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, the US Department of Defense said the theft of a large number of classified military documents suffered by Seoul, including the latest version of the plan for joint South Korea-US operations in wartime and an emergency plan of the two countries to "behead" the leadership of Pyongyang, [...]
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As reported by Nova, the exponents of all the political forces of South Korea said they were in agreement on the need to protect the national interests of the country in view of the imminent negotiations with the US for the renegotiation of the bilateral free treaty exchange. This was reported by the newspaper "Korea Herald", following the agreement [...]
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The South Korean Unification Ministry reported that, despite tensions over Pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests and the resulting new sanctions imposed on the Kim Jong-Un regime, South Korea has approved the sending of 8 million dollars (equal to 6,7 million euros) of humanitarian aid to Korea in [...]
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The South Korean government once again reiterates the need to plan humanitarian aid for the most disadvantaged sectors of the North Korean population, despite the severe sanctions affecting the Pyongyang regie. Baik Tae-hyun, spokesman for the Unification Ministry, during a press conference, explained that the sending of aid "must remain independent of the situation [...]
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South Korea has announced that it has completed the "provisional" installation of the US-made anti-missile shield in the south-east of the country to counter the North Korean missile threat and is asking for talks with the countries affected by the deployment of the system weapon. In the morning, the Seoul Ministry of Defense announced that, at the plant [...]
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New provocation from North Korea. After the launches of two Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on 4 and 28 July capable of hitting the US, Pyongyang would have carried out its sixth thermonuclear test by detonating, this time a hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is feared , in an underground site. Explosion identified thanks to the shock caused [...]
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It would be one of the last options on the table should the escalation not stop. According to the Daily Mail, military leaders in Seoul have informed South Korean President Moon Jae-in of their possible plan to send assassins trained by them to kill the regime's leaders. The news comes in a moment in [...]
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The American reaction to North Korean provocations did not delay, American strategic bombers and stealth fighters flew over the Korean peninsula, reports the South Korean news agency Yonhap. Four F-35B stealth jets and two B-1B strategic bombers today carried out training maneuvers together with Seoul Air Force F-15K fighters in response to continuous missile launches […]
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South Korea has opened an 8 billion euro line of credit for projects in Iran, the largest contract of its kind in recent years. A move hoped for by the Iranian government which has a vital need for foreign investment. According to the Iranian media, the line of credit was inaugurated by the Korean [...]
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