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In response to the principle of non-interference in internal affairs of the 10 ASEAN countries, which include monarchies, President Yoon Seok-yeol recommended ‘spreading freedom’ at the ASEAN summit, violating the Camp David spirit by intensifying confrontation between the United States and China. President Yoon said on the 6th, “The ASEAN-Korea Solidarity Initiative is based on the centrality o..

As the US-China “semiconductor confrontation” intensified, the WTO made a “violation” decision on the “Chinese steel tariffs” imposed by the US Trump administration. At a press conference on the 12th, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said, “We discussed export restrictions to Japan, the Netherlands, and China, which manufacture semiconductor manufacturing equipment.” Bloomberg..

The U.S. unemployment rate started to rise following high inflation with an average annual increase of 9.1% in the consumer price index in June, but Korean securities companies predicted a stock market rally due to a slowdown in inflation in the U.S. in July. The Wall Street Journal reported on the 4th that economists have predicted that the unemployment rate will rise to 4.3% by the end of next..

President Moon Jae-in expressed his opposition to the Biden administration's post-Trump policy toward North Korea ahead of the Korea-US summit in late May. President Moon said, "I hope that President Biden will become a historic president who has made real and irreversible progress for complete denuclearization and peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula." It would be a mistake to abolish the S..