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N. Korean leader departs for Hanoi by train: report
N. Korea has long way to go to denuclearize, Yongbyon offer 'significant': ...
Chinese military plane enters S. Korea's air defense zone
N. Korean, U.S. envoys continue talks on summit agenda
S. Korea's average foodstuff price rises sharply in Q4 on summer heat
Bolton cancels trip to S. Korea: White House
Pompeo to travel to Vietnam for summit Feb. 26-28
Trump says troop withdrawal not on summit agenda
Kim and Trump lookalikes draw the crowds in Hanoi
Inter-Korean forestry cooperation could make progress 'faster': PM

Feb 23, 2019 Foreign Affairs

N. Korean leader departs for Hanoi by train: report

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un departed for Hanoi by train on Saturday for a summit with US President Donald Trump, a news report said.Kim's train left Pyongyang around 5 p.m. local time and is expected to travel through China all the way to Vietnam, Tass news agency reported from Pyongyang, citing an unidentified source. (Yonhap)Kim and Trump are set to hold their second summit on Feb. 27-28.The report said that the train will travel around 4,500 kilometers to Hanoi, which will take over 48 ho

N. Korea has long way to go to denuclearize, Yongbyon offer 'significant': ex-CIA official

North Korea has a long way to go to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, but its offer to shut down the Yongbyon facility is a "significant" step, a former U.S. intelligence official said Friday.(Yonhap)Andrew Kim, who retired in December as head of the Central Intelligence Agency's Korea Mission Center, said North Koreans had complained to him that they weren't getting due credit for the steps they took to honor their denuclearization commitment after the first U.S.-North Korea summit in June

Feb 23, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Chinese military plane enters S. Korea's air defense zone

A Chinese military jet entered South Korea's air defense zone without notice three times Saturday, defense authorities said. (Yonhap)The aircraft entered the country's air defense identification zone, called the KADIZ, at around 8:03 a.m. near Ieo Island and exited at 8:27 a.m. according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).It re-entered the KADIZ at 9:34 a.m. near the southeastern city of Pohang, and flew between Ulleung and the easternmost islets of Dokdo, eventually leaving the air defense zone

Feb 23, 2019
Defense
N. Korean, U.S. envoys continue talks on summit agenda

Senior North Korean and U.S. envoys held another meeting in Hanoi on Saturday to discuss the agenda for the second summit between Pyongyang and Washington slated for next week. (Yonhap)Kim Hyok-chol, Pyongyang's special representative for the United States, met his U.S. counterpart Stephen Biegun, Washington's envoy for North Korea, for the third straight day on Saturday in Hanoi.The second summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump is slated for Feb. 27-28 in the

Feb 23, 2019
Foreign Affairs
S. Korea's average foodstuff price rises sharply in Q4 on summer heat

The average price of foodstuff in South Korea increased sharply in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared with other major advanced countries, data showed Saturday, apparently due to the scorching summer heat last year. (Yonhap)According to the data compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Statistics Korea, the average price of foodstuff in South Korea went up 5.1 percent on-year in the October-December period of 2018.It marked the second highest rise compared with

Feb 23, 2019
Education
Bolton cancels trip to S. Korea: White House

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has canceled his planned visit to South Korea ahead of next week's summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a White House spokesperson said Friday.(Yonhap)"Ambassador Bolton has canceled his travel to the Republic of Korea to focus on events in Venezuela," the National Security Council spokesperson told Yonhap News Agency on condition of anonymity.A diplomatic source in Seoul earlier told Yonhap, "The White House h

Feb 23, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Pompeo to travel to Vietnam for summit Feb. 26-28

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Vietnam next week for the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the State Department said Friday.(Yonhap)Pompeo is scheduled to be in Hanoi Feb. 26-28 to participate in the summit and bilateral meetings with Vietnamese leaders, the department said in a statement.The summit is scheduled for Feb. 27 and 28.Pompeo will also travel to Manila, Philippines, Feb. 28 and March 1 to meet with President Rod

Feb 23, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Trump says troop withdrawal not on summit agenda

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that withdrawing troops from South Korea will not be discussed during his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.(Yonhap)Trump and Kim are set to meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 27 and28 to discuss the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.There have been concerns that the U.S. president will agree to draw down American troops in South Korea as part of a deal with the North."No, it's not, no. It is not a consideration," Trump said at

Feb 23, 2019
Foreign Affairs
Inter-Korean forestry cooperation could make progress 'faster': PM

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said Friday that inter-Korean cooperation in the forestry sector could make progress faster than any other joint economic project.He made the remarks while visiting a farming association corporation in Buyeo, South Chungcheong Province."As North Korea needs to produce food and reforest its territory at the same time, the fruit trees that we have improved could play a useful role," Lee said. Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon looks around a food processing factory

Feb 22, 2019
North Korea
[Newsmaker] US missionaries speak out against controversial Gwangju Uprising comments

US missionaries who lived in Gwangju through the May 18 Democratization Movement in 1980 sent a letter to National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang on Friday, referring to controversial remarks from far-right figures as “blatantly false.”“It was not an organized movement -- it was an illicit assault upon our city of 800,000 people by military forces under the control of Chun Doo-Hwan. … Believe us, we know what happened in Gwangju -- we were eye-witnesses, and we recorded what we saw and experienc

Feb 23, 2019
Social affairs
Police probe alleged bribery of police by club ‘Burning Sun’

Police are tracking transactions between a Gangnam club called Burning Sun and police officers upon finding that the club, reportedly a hotbed of drugs and sexual violence, offered money to the police.A regional investigation unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is questioning former and incumbent officers of Gangnam Police Station over how they closed an underage clubbing case at Burning Sun last year, and booked a number of the ex-officers on bribery charges. (Yonhap)Gangnam Police Sta

Feb 23, 2019
Social affairs
N. Korean, US envoys hold additional talks on summit agenda

Senior North Korean and US envoys held hourslong talks in Hanoi on Friday as part of home-stretch preparations for another summit between the leaders of the Korean War foes.The negotiations on the summit agenda came as Washington said that freezing all of Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction programs and delivery systems will be a priority at the second summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump, slated for Feb. 27-28.Kim Hyok-chol, Pyongyang's special represent

Feb 22, 2019
North Korea
Korea denounces Japan's annual ceremony on Dokdo islets

The South Korean government condemned Japan on Friday for its continued sovereignty claim over Dokdo, a pair of rocky islets in the East Sea, again demonstrated in an official event.The Japanese prefecture of Shimane held the Takeshima Day event earlier in the day aimed at publicizing Japan's territorial claim to Dokdo, which Seoul has effectively controlled for a long time. Dokdo (Yonhap)A senior Japanese government official attended the ceremony, according to Seoul's foreign ministry.In a stat

Feb 22, 2019
Social affairs
Seoul's top nuclear envoy due in Hanoi for summit-related consultations

South Korea's chief nuclear envoy headed to Hanoi on Friday for consultations on next week's summit between North Korea and the United States.Lee Do-hoon, special representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, plans to meet with Stephen Biegun, Washington's envoy for Pyongyang, there to discuss a negotiation strategy, a government source said. Lee Do-hoon (Yonhap)Biegun is leading the working-level bargaining with North Korea on the agenda items of the two-day talks between lead

Feb 22, 2019
North Korea
Korea, India agree to strengthen defense cooperation, economic ties

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed Friday to strengthen military ties and defense industry cooperation between the two countries.During their summit in Seoul, the leaders also agreed to complete the two nations' negotiations to upgrade their bilateral free trade pact at an early date, according to the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae. (Yonhap)Modi arrived in Seoul on Thursday for a two-day state visit.His trip reciprocated Moon's state visit to Ind

Feb 22, 2019
Foreign Policy

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