15 en Japan has begun the fifth discharge of contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. According to Japan's Kyodo News on Friday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO) plans to release seven-thousand-800 tons of wastewater through May 7. On Wednesday, TEPCO ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:30:16 +0900 International According to a U.S. broadcaster, U.S. President Joe Biden has said that Washington will not participate in Israel's offensive operations against Iran, while reaffirming its commitment to defending Israel. Citing a senior U.S. official on Friday, NBC News said Biden delivered his stance to Israeli leaders, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:12:27 +0900 International Media outlets have reported that missiles launched by Israel, in an apparent retaliation for Iran's airstrike on Israel last weekend, have struck targets within Iran. According to ABC News, which cited a senior U.S. government official, Israel launched missiles in a retaliatory strike against Iran early ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:31:00 +0900 International A British parliamentary group focused on North Korean issues sent a letter to the British foreign secretary, calling for attention and response to China’s forcible repatriation of North Korean refugees.  David Alton and Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the co-chairs of the United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:03:46 +0900 International The foreign ministry says it is mulling various steps with likeminded countries on creating an alternative mechanism for a UN panel that monitors the enforcement of UN sanctions on North Korea and whose term of office will end later this month.  The ministry’s spokesperson, Lim Soo-suk, made the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:41:35 +0900 International A U.S. think tank said it has detected signs that North Korea had prepared for a second military reconnaissance satellite launch early this month, before canceling such a plan. The Beyond Parallel website run by the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS), citing satellite images from April ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:29:55 +0900 International The U.S. Justice Department has indicted a former North Korean diplomat in Thailand on charges of sanctions evasion, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and international money laundering.  The department said on Tuesday that Ri Myong-ho, a former official at the North Korean embassy in Thailand, arranged for ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:48:07 +0900 International Amid heightened tensions in the Middle East after Iran’s attack on Israel, the U.S. State Department said the United States is "incredibly concerned" about the long-suspected military cooperation between North Korea and Iran. Department spokesperson Matthew Miller made the remarks on Tuesday during a ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:15:04 +0900 International Israel’s war cabinet is reportedly considering a “painful” retaliation against Iran that does not cause a full-out war.  Israel’s Channel 12 news reported that the war cabinet on Monday discussed several options for retaliation against Iran that would be painful but unlikely to trigger a regional ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:24:50 +0900 International South Korea on Monday issued a tentative "special travel advisory" for Iran following heightened tensions in the Middle East.  The Level Three travel advisory currently in place for some parts of Iran will remain valid, including Iran's borders with Iraq and Turkey.  The special travel advisory, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:45:07 +0900 International U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield says Washington is devising steps to ensure the continuous release of credible reports on violations of sanctions in North Korea and expressed hope to work closely with South Korea on related efforts.  Thomas-Greenfield made the remark on ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:17:42 +0900 International On April 1, an Iranian consulate in Syria was bombarded by an apparent Israeli airstrike, killing seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders.   Twelve days after the attack, Iran responded with its own airstrike, using 170 drones and 150 missiles to conduct an unprecedented attack on ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:32:31 +0900 International Israel’s war cabinet reportedly favors retaliation against Iran’s drone and missile attack but it’s divided over the timing and scale of such a response.  Israel’s five-member war cabinet, which includes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant, reportedly could ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:14:35 +0900 International The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is set to arrive in the country on Sunday. The top U.S. envoy will meet with senior government officials to discuss ways to advance bilateral cooperation in the UN Security Council during the four-day trip. The ambassador is also ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:17:48 +0900 International Iran launched a retaliatory attack against Israel on Saturday, 12 days after Iran claimed Israel attacked Iran’s diplomatic mission in Syria. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, reportedly said that Iran fired a massive swarm of more than 200 killer drones as well as ballistic ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:10:39 +0900 International The United States has reportedly deployed Navy destroyers to the Middle East to defend Israel against Iran's potential retaliatory strike for the bombing of its consulate in Damascus, Syria earlier this month. According to The Wall Street Journal(WSJ) on Friday, Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:51:51 +0900 International An International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) inspection team will visit Japan for three days from April 23 to review the release of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.  The Japanese government announced on Friday that the team is made up of eleven IAEA officials and experts from ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:36:57 +0900 International South Korea has again been selected as a member of the governing bodies of the World Food Program(WFP) and UNICEF.  The foreign ministry announced on Friday that the UN Economic and Social Council elected South Korea as a member of the executive boards of the WFP and UNICEF for the 2025 to 2027 ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:14:56 +0900 International Latest satellite imagery suggests North Korea and Russia's continued illegal trade banned under United Nations Security Council(UNSC) resolutions amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. According to satellite photos released by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS) on ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:23:27 +0900 International Militaries from the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom will conduct regular combined exercises starting next year in a bid to enhance the three sides' shared and enduring security. U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida welcomed the decision on Wednesday, in a ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:15:49 +0900 International U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reaffirmed their commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea in accordance with relevant United Nations Security Council(UNSC) resolutions. In a joint statement following a meeting in Washington on Wednesday, the leaders ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:32:47 +0900 International The White House announced that the leaders of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines will announce a new initiative on energy security and maritime cooperation at their first trilateral summits in Washington on Thursday, local time.   According to White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:26:54 +0900 International A White House official has reaffirmed that the United States remains open to dialogue with North Korea on a “wide range of topics without preconditions” regarding possible "interim steps" towards the North’s denuclearization. Mira Rapp-Hooper, the National Security Council senior director for East ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:46:31 +0900 International The White House expects that the strengthening of cooperation between the U.S and Japan with the planned bilateral summit will have a synergistic effect on their trilateral cooperation with South Korea.  U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made the remarks on Tuesday during a press briefing when ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:24:35 +0900 International South Korea, China and Japan are reportedly reviewing a plan to hold a trilateral summit around May 26 and 27.  Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun daily issued the report on Wednesday, saying that the governments of the three nations are in the final stages of coordination to arrange a three-way summit in late ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:25:56 +0900 International U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. will continue to "shore up" peace and security on the Korean Peninsula in the midst of North Korea’s ongoing provocations.  The U.S. defense chief made the remarks in a written statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services regarding the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:06:25 +0900 International Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said that he hopes his relationship with President Yoon Suk Yeol will help the two countries build trust over time.  Kishida made the remarks during an interview with The Washington Post, which was held in Tokyo ahead of his state visit to the United ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:51:03 +0900 International China’s third highest-ranking official, Zhao Leji, will make an official visit to North Korea later this week.  Spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry Mao Ning told reporters on Tuesday that Zhao, who is the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, will visit the North ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:22:02 +0900 International A Japanese daily reported that the volume of wastewater at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has decreased by around 19-thousand tons following four rounds of water discharge into the ocean since last August. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, citing plant operator Tokyo Electric Power ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:36:51 +0900 International U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will reportedly confirm their cooperation in the development of Japan's low-orbit satellite network at a bilateral summit on Wednesday. Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun daily said on Monday that the two leaders will discuss cooperation on ...

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