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North Korea’s nuclear advancement law brings US ‘diplomacy’, Japan ‘international security’, and Korea ‘end of regime’ The U.S. State Department responded to North Korea's enactment of its nuclear weapons advancement decree by saying, "We will do what we have been doing" and added, "This is an important step to engage with to deter North Korea's aggression and coordinate an international respons..

Yoon Seok-yeol ‘Normalization of relations’ vs. Kishida ‘improvement movement’ Semiconductor investment ‘cancellation’ While President Yoon Seok-yeol said in a press conference for the Korea-Japan summit that the normalization of bilateral relations was on the right track, Prime Minister Kishida said that the movement to improve Japan-Korea relations was on the right track, widening the gap. Pri..

The U.S. State Department announced that the “diplomacy priority” and the operation of a three-way system between South Korea, the U.S. and Japan, with a gap between President Yoon Seok-yeol’s “bold proposal after the denuclearization of North Korea” and “the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” In his congratulatory address on the 15th, President Yoon said, “The denuclearization of North K..

At the Korea-Japan Foreign Ministers' Meeting, "agreeing to improve relations to strengthen defense against North Korea," Japan cooperated with Japan's constitutional amendment by increasing its military expenditure, and an agreement was not reached on compensation for conscripted workers, which was the issue. The Voice of America (VOA) said, “Foreign Minister Park Jin and Foreign Minister Yoshi..

At the GCC+3 summit in the Middle East on the 15th, President Biden, whose approval rating is declining in Korea, attempted to increase oil production against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but failed. Reuters said, “At this summit, It has not yielded concrete results in matters such as strengthening regional security cooperation,” the report said on the 17th. The pro-Trump Republican C..

Presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung tried to make domestic conservatives out of a sense of wariness against “Japan, an enemy nation,” while candidate Yoon Seok-yeol attempted to make the US Republican party’s arms-strengthening conservatives “reliance on Japan for an external strategic monopoly.” At a foreign press conference on the 25th, Democratic Party candidate Lee referred to Japan as 'the..

North Korean propaganda media marked Dokdo as “Korea’s” for the Japanese Olympics in “our territory” during the Pyeongchang Olympics, and turned it into a topic for negotiations between North Korea and Japan. On the 7th, North Korean media 'Joseon Today' said, "Dokdo is Joseon's yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever. We strongly demand that the scheme to rob Dokdo be removed immediately,” he sa..