15 en The main opposition Democratic Party(DP) marked the sixth anniversary of the two Koreas' Panmunjeom Declaration on Saturday, urging the Yoon Suk Yeol administration to end confrontation with North Korea. In a statement, DP spokesperson Choi Min-seok said it would be difficult to say the two Koreas ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:45:34 +0900 Inter-Korea The main opposition Democratic Party(DP) anticipated Monday's talks between President Yoon Suk Yeol and DP leader Lee Jae-myung to wholly reflect public sentiment from the recent general elections. At a press briefing on Saturday, DP spokesperson Choi Min-seok said the public has high expectations ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:41:03 +0900 Politics Anchor: South Korea's top presidential security adviser was hopeful Seoul and Moscow will be able to restore frayed ties once the war in Ukraine ends, emphasizing that the two sides maintain "leverage," despite the protracted war and Russia's expanding military cooperation with North Korea. Choi ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:30:25 +0900 International North Korea declared to carry out planned important tasks aimed at enhancing the regime's space reconnaissance capabilities to be on the lookout for and to seize control of the U.S. and hostile forces' military commotion and invasive schemes. In a statement carried by the state-run Korean ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:45:40 +0900 Inter-Korea U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and foreign minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday, urged China to pressure North Korea to halt its military provocations. At a press conference following the talks, Blinken said he had urged China to press the North ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:11:57 +0900 Inter-Korea The ruling People Power Party(PPP) welcomed a meeting set to take place on Monday between President Yoon Suk Yeol and main opposition Democratic Party(DP) leader Lee Jae-myung, stressing partisan cooperation should be the base of the talks. In a statement on Saturday, PPP chief spokesperson Jung Hee-yong ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:57:55 +0900 Politics The state anti-corruption agency summoned a key suspect in its investigation into alleged state intervention in the case of a Marine's death during a rain search and rescue operation last year. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials(CIO) questioned Yoo Jae-eun, the defense ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:35:26 +0900 Politics The government has expressed regret over a decision by medical professors at all the "Big Five" general hospitals in Seoul to suspend outpatient consultations and surgeries one day each week and to tender their resignations. Deputy Health Minister Jun Byung-wang revealed the stance to reporters on Friday ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:27:48 +0900 Politics The Seoul Metropolitan Council has passed a motion seeking to abolish an ordinance on students’ human rights. The motion which was submitted last March was passed in a unanimous vote by all 60 in attendance during a plenary session on Friday.  The Seoul council’s efforts to pass the motion had ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:41:31 +0900 Politics President Yoon Suk Yeol has nominated judge-turned-lawyer Oh Dong-woon as the head of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials(CIO).  Presidential office spokesperson Kim Soo-kyung announced on Friday that Yoon will swiftly request for the National Assembly to hold a confirmation ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:11:48 +0900 Politics U.S. Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues Julie Turner will travel to South Korea next month to visit a site where five South Korean teens were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s.  South Korea’s ambassador for North Korean human rights issues, Lee Shin-hwa, announced the planned visit ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:56:33 +0900 Inter-Korea The Pentagon said a defense cost-sharing agreement between South Korea and the U.S. reflects the allies' shared commitment to the stable stationing of U.S. Forces Korea(USFK) and a robust combined defense posture. In a statement following the allies' first round of talks to renew the Special ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:46:07 +0900 Politics The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) rose 27-point-71 points, or one-point-05 percent on Friday to close at two-thousand-656-point-33. The tech-heavy KOSDAQ climbed three-point-56 points, or zero-point-42 percent, to close at 856-point-82. On the foreign exchange, the local currency ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:41:48 +0900 Politics The defense ministry on Friday said it has confirmed through an audit that the easternmost Dokdo islets were inappropriately described as the possible subject of a territorial dispute in the military's 2023 revised basic education material. Announcing the outcome of the audit of writers, advisors and ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:25:18 +0900 Politics The average daily foreign currency transaction during the first quarter of this year expanded by more than nine percent compared to the previous quarter. According to the Bank of Korea(BOK) on Friday, the average daily foreign exchange turnover stood at 69-point-four billion U.S. dollars in the January to ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:42:14 +0900 Economy President Yoon Suk Yeol and main opposition Democratic Party(DP) leader Lee Jae-myung have agreed to meet at the Yongsan presidential office on Monday for talks starting at 2 p.m. That is according to Lee's chief of staff Cheon Jun-ho on Friday, following a third round of consultations between the top ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:21:31 +0900 Politics Medical professors at all the "Big Five" general hospitals in Seoul have decided to suspend outpatient consultations and surgeries one day each week amid extended work hours due to trainee doctors' collective action in protest of the medical school admissions quota hike. According to the medical community ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:55:37 +0900 Domestic The state spy agency is taking steps to establish a national space security center to oversee duties pertaining to space security. Under a related presidential decree, a revision which took effect on Tuesday, the National Intelligence Service(NIS) is tasked to collect intel on space security, respond to ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:19:24 +0900 Politics The nation's biggest entertainment company Hybe has filed a complaint with the police against subsidiary ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin over alleged breach of trust. The Seoul Yongsan Police Station said on Friday that the complaint against Min, as well as ADOR Vice President Shin Dong-hoon was received in the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:02:55 +0900 Culture The state anti-corruption agency summoned a key suspect in its investigation into alleged state intervention in the case of a Marine's death during a rain search and rescue operation last year. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials(CIO) on Friday summoned Yoo Jae-eun, the defense ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:56:39 +0900 Politics South Korea, the United States and Japan have condemned North Korea's launch of a military reconnaissance satellite and its weapons shipments to Russia as violation of UN Security Council resolutions.  Seoul’s defense ministry said on Friday that the three nations made the statements in the 14th ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:33:48 +0900 Politics The presidential office has welcomed main opposition Democratic Party(DP) Chairman Lee Jae-myung’s decision to meet with President Yoon Suk Yeol regardless of which topics will be discussed in the meeting.  The spokesperson’s office of the top office said in a notice on Friday that the office will ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:12:31 +0900 Politics North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly inspected the test-firing of 240 millimeter multiple launch rockets, which are believed to be the weapon of choice for targeting South Korea’s capital area. According to the North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on Friday, Kim watched the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:51:50 +0900 Inter-Korea South Korea lost to Indonesia in the quarterfinals of the Asian Football Confederation(AFC) U-23 Asian Cup, failing to secure a ticket to the Paris Olympics.  Team Korea, led by head coach Hwang Sun-hong, fell to Indonesia 11-10 in a marathon penalty shootout after drawing 2-2 after 120 minutes in the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:20:31 +0900 Sports Min Hee-jin, the head of entertainment company Hybe’s subsidiary, ADOR, has strongly refuted allegations raised by Hybe that she schemed to seize control of the parent company. In a news conference held in Seoul on Thursday, Min said she had never planned or intended to take over Hybe’s management ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:15:53 +0900 Culture The presidential office has proposed that a meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and main opposition Democratic Party(DP) chief Lee Jae-myung be held swiftly without coordinating topics in advance.  Senior presidential secretary for political affairs Hong Chul-ho said in a briefing on Thursday that ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:54:18 +0900 Politics South Korea and Australia will hold a meeting of their foreign and defense ministers in Australia next week.  The foreign ministry announced on Thursday that the sixth session of the so-called two-plus-two talks will be held next Wednesday, adding that the meeting will focus on solidifying the two ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:24:33 +0900 Politics The main opposition Democratic Party(DP) has expressed disappointment over the second round of working-level talks it held with the presidential office to arrange a meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and DP chief Lee Jae-myung.  DP Rep. Cheon Jun-ho, who serves as Lee’s chief secretary, told ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:20:19 +0900 Politics The state spy agency urged public caution against terrorist groups' possible focus on "soft target" attacks involving civilian casualties at multipurpose venues to maximize the effects of their propaganda. In a press release on Thursday, the National Intelligence Service(NIS) said amid increasing ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:08:38 +0900 Politics The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) declined 47-point-13 points, or one-point-76 percent on Thursday to close at two-thousand-628-point-62. The tech-heavy KOSDAQ inched down eight-point-97 points, or one-point-04 percent, to close at 853-point-26. On the foreign exchange, the local ...

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