15 en South Korean police, working with Cambodian authorities, have rescued a South Korean national held inside a scam compound in Cambodia and arrested 26 other South Koreans connected to the site. The National Police Agency said Sunday that the rescue took place last Thursday at a criminal compound near ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:47:09 +0900 International South Korea has reportedly held closed‑door talks with Russia to discuss North Korea-related issues, including the North's nuclear program. According to a diplomatic source on Sunday, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official overseeing North Korea's nuclear affairs recently made an unannounced trip to ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:28:59 +0900 International National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac said South Korea and the United States have agreed to begin simultaneous, sector‑by‑sector consultations next year to implement summit‑level agreements, including discussions on uranium enrichment, spent nuclear fuel reprocessing and Seoul’s pursuit of ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:45:58 +0900 International A class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States against Coupang, South Korea's largest e‑commerce company, following a major personal data breach. According to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Saturday, shareholder Joseph Berry filed a securities ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:20:57 +0900 International North Korean hackers likely extorted two billion U.S. dollars worth of cryptocurrency this year, according to a think-tank. According to a report by the U.S.-based blockchain data platform Chainalysis on Thursday, three-point-four billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency was stolen worldwide between January ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:57:39 +0900 International Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stressed the importance of exchanges and cooperation between South Korea and Japan as the two nations mark the 60th anniversary of their normalization of diplomatic relations. In a post on X on Thursday, Takaichi said the two nations have expanded exchanges and ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:03:36 +0900 International National Security Adviser Wi Sung‑lac said Thursday that South Korea and the United States had agreed to move quickly on follow‑up measures to agreements reached at their recent summit. In a phone interview with Yonhap News TV after a two‑day visit to Washington, Wi described consultations with U.S. ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:00:45 +0900 International Finland's prime minister has apologized to South Korea, Japan and China for photos mocking Asian people that multiple Finnish lawmakers recently shared. In a social media statement issued through Finland's embassies in the three East Asian nations on Wednesday, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:41:50 +0900 International Finland's prime minister has apologized for offensive photos that multiple Finnish lawmakers recently posted on social media. In a statement issued through Finland's embassies in South Korea, China and Japan on Wednesday, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo expressed sincere apologies for the behavior ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:02:39 +0900 International The United States has held bilateral talks with South Korea ahead of the Pax Silica summit.  U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Jacob Helberg told foreign correspondents during a news briefing that Washington held separate dialogue and economic discussions with ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:28:49 +0900 International National Security Adviser Wi Sung‑lac met with U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright in Washington on Wednesday. According to sources, Wi and Wright held talks at an undisclosed location in downtown Washington to discuss implementing the agreements in the joint fact sheet issued after the recent South ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:13:44 +0900 International The U.S. Senate has passed an annual defense policy bill that prohibits the government from unilaterally reducing the number of troops stationed in South Korea. The Senate approved the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) for the next fiscal year in a 77-20 vote on Wednesday. The U.S. House of ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:05:16 +0900 International South Korea’s Ambassador to the United States Kang Kyung‑wha formally presented her credentials to U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, a diplomatic protocol that officially recognizes her as Seoul’s top envoy.  Kang attended a credential ceremony at the White House, where she met Trump and ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:28:38 +0900 International National Security Adviser Wi Sung‑lac said South Korea may seek a separate agreement with the United States to advance its push for nuclear‑powered submarines. Wi made the remarks Tuesday to reporters upon arriving at Dulles International Airport near Washington, noting that Australia had obtained U.S. ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:05:16 +0900 International National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac is headed to Washington to discuss follow-up measures to the South Korea-U.S. summit and coordination on North Korea policy. Wi told reporters at Incheon International Airport ahead of his Tuesday departure that his visit would focus on follow-up steps to the two ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:22:57 +0900 International Korea Zinc, the world’s largest zinc smelter, plans to build a facility in Tennessee in partnership with the United States government and private sector. The company said Monday that its board had approved the plan and disclosed it in a regulatory filing and that the project aims to secure new growth ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:40:59 +0900 International South Korea and the United Kingdom have signed a deal to upgrade their bilateral free trade agreement(FTA) after two years of negotiations, aiming to expand market access and strengthen economic ties. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources said Tuesday that Trade Minister Yeo Han‑koo and Chris ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:41:17 +0900 International South Korea urged Japan to uphold commitments it made during the inscription of the Sado mines as a UNESCO World Heritage site after it failed to mention the forced mobilization of Korean workers in a report. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee posted Japan’s State of Conservation report on the Sado mines ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:07:20 +0900 International Coupang Inc. founder and chairman Kim Bom‑suk, also known as Bom Kim, has notified the National Assembly that he will not attend a hearing this week on a massive data breach at the e‑commerce giant. Democratic Party lawmakers on the parliamentary science, ICT, broadcasting and communications committee ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:24:18 +0900 International The United Nations Security Council has reportedly deferred a decision on the United States’ request for additional sanctions against North Korea due to opposition from China and Russia. Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun daily issued the report Sunday, citing a source at the Security Council as saying the U.S. ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:25:58 +0900 International South Korea and the United States held the fifth Nuclear Consultative Group(NCG) meeting, the first since the terms of President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump began. The talks were held in Washington, D.C. on Thursday and were led by Kim Hong‑cheol, deputy minister for national defense ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:41:28 +0900 International The Trump administration plans to require foreigners entering the United States under its visa waiver program to provide their social media history from the last five years.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection(CBP) published a notice regarding the proposal in the Federal Register on Wednesday.  The ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:13:31 +0900 International Senior diplomats from South Korea and the United States reaffirmed economic security commitments made at recent bilateral summits and discussed supply chain cooperation in Washington. Second Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jin-a and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg held the 10th ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:12:03 +0900 International The U.S. Federal Reserve has announced its third consecutive rate cut, narrowing the gap with South Korea’s benchmark rate to one‑point‑25 percentage point. After a two‑day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank said in a statement Wednesday that it had lowered its key ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:50:13 +0900 International South Korea and Chile have been selected to co‑host the next UN Ocean Conference(UNOC) in 2028. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution Tuesday at UN headquarters in New York confirming the co‑hosts, with 169 votes in favor and two against. The resolution stipulates that the conference, aimed ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:53:31 +0900 International The presidential office reaffirmed that Dokdo, in the East Sea, is indisputably South Korea’s territory, rejecting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent claim. A senior presidential official made the comments when asked about Takaichi's remarks on Tuesday, stating that there is no territorial ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:34:59 +0900 International A South Korean defense company has signed a framework agreement to export K2 tanks and other ground equipment to Peru. The presidential office said Wednesday in a press release that under the agreement, Peru will procure 195 vehicles—54 K2 tanks and 141 K808 wheeled armored vehicles—by next year in ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:20:32 +0900 International The ruling Democratic Party on Tuesday denounced Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s renewed claim that Dokdo—which Japan calls Takeshima—is Japanese territory, calling the remarks a repeated distortion of history. In a statement, party spokesperson Moon Dae-rim said the prime minister’s ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:25:13 +0900 International Multiple Russian and Chinese military planes entered the Korea Air Defense Identification Zone(KADIZ) over the seas off the eastern and southern coasts on Tuesday morning.  According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), seven Russian and two Chinese aircraft entered KADIZ around 10:35 a.m. and remained in ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:53:12 +0900 International A seven-point-five-magnitude earthquake struck waters off the northernmost Aomori Prefecture of Honshu, Japan's largest island, late on Monday, injuring at least 30 people. Japan's Kyodo News and NHK reported that the quake hit around 11:15 p.m. Monday, with an epicenter at a depth of 54 ...

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