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Rep. Yoon Geon-young, who was the inter-Korean negotiator at the Blue House, seems to have deviated from denuclearization by formalizing the confrontation between the two Koreas to increase arms. On the 15th, Rep. Yoon said, "Deputy Director Kim (Journey) has said that every time North Korea launches a missile it is a normal and self-defense measure. In the missile test launch, not only Presiden..

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea from the Yangdeok area in South Pyongan Province at 12:34 and 39 pm on the 15th, just before the test of a South Korean SLBM submarine. South Korea launched an underwater mounted SLBM from the Dosan Anchang, delivered on the 13th, during the observation of President Moon Jae-in at the Defense Science Research Institute (ADD) ..

President Moon Jae-in surged 50% from the previous government's budget of 400.5 trillion won in 2017 to 604 trillion won in the next five years, fixing the fiscal deficit system of 8% annual fiscal, 6% military increase, and 4% economic growth rate. The aggressive tax increase is a 19.8% increase from this year's main budget national tax of 285 trillion won, as national tax revenue is 338.6 tril..

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 ..