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Reinforcement of North Korea's long-range weapons system, 'parallel' foreign talks with China North Korea strengthened its arsenal with a long-range weapons system and held foreign affairs talks with China and ICBM test launches in parallel. North Korea's Korean Central News Agency reported that North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Park Myong-ho met with Foreign Minister Sun Weidong in China on t..

White House ‘extended deterrence’ Kim Tae-hyo ‘separation of North Korean nuclear test’ ROK-US nuclear talks NCG clash The Washington meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) between South Korea and the United States was held by Gary Seymour, former White House coordinator for weapons of mass destruction, who said, “It shows how important the U.S. considers the activities of the Extended ..

The NSC Inter-Korean Agreement’s ‘amendment agreement’ was annulled by applying domestic law to ‘unilaterally suspend’ it South Korea's NSC annulled the 'amendment is by agreement' clause in the inter-Korean military agreement, treating it as subordinate to domestic law, and entered into a complete annulment. A Korean reconnaissance satellite will be launched from a U.S. Air Force base on the 30..

Netanyahu's 'security rule in Gaza', White House's 'limitation of armed conflict' clashes, 'pause' stalemate Negotiations on a ‘temporary suspension of attacks’ seem to have stalled as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared ‘responsible governance of Gaza’s security’ and the White House clashed over ‘civilian protection under the Armed Conflict Intervention Act’. In an interview with ABC on t..

Israel arms deal with the US, ‘House Speaker deal’ with the Biden Republican Party The Hamas situation is turning into a compact deal between the far-right Netanyahu and U.S. President Biden, and the Republican Party, which is divided between pro-Trump hardliners and the U.S. providing new weapons to Israel, is attempting to make a deal with the White House to provide Israeli weapons support and..

U.S.-North Korea, Swedish contact line closed, U.S. soldiers who defected to North Korea ‘repatriation diplomacy’ It is expected that the information will be released after the US and North Korea activate the contact line in Sweden to begin “repatriation diplomacy” of US soldiers who defected to North Korea and North Korea investigates for about two weeks. White House Spokesperson Jean-Pierre sa..

South Korea-U.S. Leaders Joint Statement on Triangular Security System, Economic Talks to Eliminate North Korean Nuclear Issues As the ROK-US summit shifted to a triangular alliance security system, the joint statement agreed to exclude “North Korea’s nuclear deterrence” as a separate statement, and the summit became “economic cooperation.” White House National Security Adviser Sullivan said on ..

While President Yoon Seok-yeol agreed to “delay” the Supreme Court’s right to compensation for conscripted workers through a Korea-Japan summit and prioritized “freedom,” Prime Minister Kishida set the gap with “rule of law internationalism.” Immediately after the summit meeting on the 16th, President Yoon and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida confirmed the gap between “freedom” and “rule of law” ..

The US Democratic administration has started joint development of jet aircraft and advanced semiconductor artificial intelligence (AI) by making India into an Asian military equipment cooperation system. Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and his Indian partner Ajit Doval launched a US-India initiative on critical and emerging technologies with senior officials from both countries at the White House..

The U.S. Department of State applied the extended deterrence pledge to South Korea in the “activation of the Korea-U.S. Extended Deterrence Strategic Consultative Body,” which led to “desktop training” talks rather than joint nuclear weapons training between South Korea and the U.S., and the U.S. first disclosed the details on the 3rd. A senior U.S. administration official told Reuters anonymous..