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The U.S. State Department announced on the 25th in a press release that it has approved the sale of precision-guided weapons (PGM) and related equipment worth a total of $258 million to South Korea on the 25th. The US weapons to be imported by Korea include 3,953 'KMU-556' and 1,981 'KMU-557' and 'DSU-42/B' laser precision guidance devices for joint direct strike (JDAM, GBU-31) missiles. and rel..

The lack of a vaccine hub strategy was revealed as the government and Samsung Biologics demanded that Moderna's domestic supply of contract vaccines failed. Kang Do-tae, 1st General Coordinator (Second Vice Minister of Welfare) of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said as a result of a request for domestic supply of finished products in September for Samsung Bio consignment production during a..

As President Moon Jae-in declared that he is the world's sixth-largest military power, he is expected to lift the barriers to division, which is an obstacle to prosperity, in Northeast Asia. President Moon gave a speech in commemoration of the Liberation Day as a commemorative speech for “the biggest obstacle to growth and prosperity and a strong barrier to lasting peace” with peace in Northeast..

In the health insurance-enhanced medical system, the coverage rate for clinic-level medical institutions decreased from 57.9% in 2018 to 57.2% in 2019, and medical technology support took priority. Under the Moon Jae-in care policy, which raises the coverage expansion to 70%, the health insurance coverage rate increased only 0.4 percentage points from 63.8% in 2018 to 64.2% in 2019. President Mo..

For the candidate substance 'GBP510' announced by the government as a domestic vaccine, the Gates Foundation paid for it, and SK Bioscience designed the 'Self Assembly Nanoparticle' of the Institute for Protein Design (IPD), Washington University, USA. In addition to the technology, it seems that it is not 'domestic' as the pandemic immune adjuvant technology of GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), a multinat..

The parallels between South Korea and the U.S. have been reconfirmed, with President Moon Jae-in speaking of “efforts to resume dialogue with North Korea” and Deputy Secretary of State Sherman “discussing in-depth North Korea policy with the Chinese government” respectively. At the Blue House on the 22nd, President Moon asked Deputy Minister Sherman to make efforts to resume US-DPRK dialogue, re..

The President and the government excluded ships from quarantine and classified only dispatched soldiers as targets for quarantine against the corona virus as the South Korean Navy dispatched heavily armed warships in cooperation with the US military operation. President Moon Jae-in said at a cabinet meeting on the 20th that the Cheonghae Unit had been infected with the corona virus by the Munmu ..

It has become a national project by adding the government budget for resolving income polarization due to the rapid growth of the fund economy as a New Deal fund project. At the 4th Strategic Meeting of President Moon Jae-in on the New Deal Economic System on the 14th, the existing 'safety net strengthening' New Deal project will be renamed 'Human New Deal' and additional funds will be injected ..

On the 8th, President Moon Jae-in declared, "We will become the number one battery country in name and reality by 2030," and "actively support the establishment of a strong alliance between battery companies and demanding companies." In a speech on the development strategy of 'K-battery', which is leaping to become the world's No. 1 nation, at LG Energy Solution's Ochang Plant on the same day, P..

President Moon Jae-in announced the 'Ordinance to Mobilize All Available Resources' to prove the superiority of K-Quarantine of 'Test-Track-Treatment' in response to the international spread of delta mutations in Korea. At a special quarantine meeting at the Blue House on the 12th, President Moon said, "We will mobilize all available resources to build a more compact quarantine network, such as ..