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IT WAS FRIDAY MORNING, AND YANG WAS AT HIS DESK AT THE SEOUL SEOBU POLICE STATION"S MAJOR CRIMES UNIT WHEN HE RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL. HE SAID SOMEONE ON THE OTHER LINE CLAIMED TO BE FROM KOREA TELECOM (KT), A MAJOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER IN SOUTH KOREA.
US ARMY GENERAL VINCENT BROOKS (LEFT), AT THE TIME COMMANDER OF UNITED STATES FORCES KOREA, WITH US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO IN PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA, LAST YEAR. PHOTO: AFP
CITING UNNAMED SOURCES, THE YONHAP REPORT SAID THE JAPANESE OFFER “APPARENTLY” INDUCED SOUTH KOREA TO STICK TO THE GENERAL SECURITY OF MILITARY INFORMATION AGREEMENT (GSOMIA). SOUTH KOREA ANNOUNCED FRIDAY EVENING IT WAS OPTING, HOURS BEFORE ITS EXPIRATION, NOT TO RESCIND THE BILATERAL AGREEMENT TO EXCHANGE SENSITIVE INFORMATION PRIMARILY ON MISSILE THREATS FROM NORTH KOREA.
DURING HIS 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, TRUMP SEEMED TO EMBRACE THE IDEA THAT SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO DEFEND AGAINST NORTH KOREA. 「AT SOME POINT,」 HE TOLD ANDERSON COOPER IN A CNN TOWN HALL, 「WE HAVE TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE』RE BETTER OFF IF JAPAN PROTECTS ITSELF AGAINST THIS MANIAC IN NORTH KOREA, WE』RE BETTER OFF, FRANKLY, IF SOUTH KOREA IS GOING TO START TO PROTECT ITSELF.... WOULDN』T YOU RATHER IN A CERTAIN SENSE HAVE JAPAN HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WHEN NORTH KOREA HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS?... WOULDN』T YOU RATHER HAVE JAPAN, PERHAPS, THEY』RE OVER THERE, THEY』RE VERY CLOSE, THEY』RE VERY FEARFUL OF NORTH KOREA.」
"A SOUTH KOREAN SUPREME COURT RULING LAST YEAR ALLOWED KOREAN VICTIMS OF FORCED LABOR DURING WORLD WAR II TO SEEK COMPENSATION FROM JAPANESE FIRMS. SOUTH KOREA ALSO SHUT DOWN A JAPANESE-FUNDED FOUNDATION THAT SUPPORTED KOREAN COMFORT WOMEN WHO WERE FORCED INTO SEXUAL SLAVERY DURING THE WAR. BOTH ACTIONS INCENSED THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT."
BUILDING BRIDGES IN SOUTH KOREA
「FROM AN EARLY AGE, THEY LIVE A MECHANICAL LIFE, GOING THROUGH A SPARTAN TRAINING REGIMEN,」 SAID LEE HARK-JOON, A SOUTH KOREAN JOURNALIST WHO HAS PRODUCED A TV DOCUMENTARY ON THE MAKING OF A K-POP GIRL GROUP AND CO-WROTE THE BOOK 「K-POP IDOLS: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE KOREAN MUSIC INDUSTRY.」 「THEY SELDOM HAVE A CHANCE TO DEVELOP A NORMAL SCHOOL LIFE OR NORMAL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AS THEIR PEERS DO.」
SECRETLY FILMED VIDEOS OR PICTURES OF INTIMATE MOMENTS OR BODY PARTS AND THEIR CIRCULATION ONLINE HAVE BEEN A WIDESPREAD CRIME IN SOUTH KOREA. PERPETRATORS, IF CONVICTED, CAN FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN JAIL OR FINES OF $25,500. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN PROTESTED IN THE STREETS OF SEOUL LAST YEAR, DEMANDING HARSHER PUNISHMENT AND RAISING WIDER PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE. IN MARCH, FOUR KOREAN ENTERTAINERS RETIRED AFTER THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN CASES OF EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN BECAME KNOWN.
SEOUL (REUTERS) - THE SEOUL CITY GOVERNMENT SAID ON TUESDAY THAT IT HAS APPROVED THE LONG-DELAYED CONSTRUCTION OF HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP’S NEW HEADQUARTERS IN THE AFFLUENT DISTRICT OF GANGNAM, WHICH IS SET TO BE SOUTH KOREA’S TALLEST SKYSCRAPER WHEN COMPLETED IN 2026.
A REUTERS ARTICLE SUGGESTED LAST WEEK THAT THE UNITED STATES IS CONSIDERING WITHDRAWING AS MANY AS 4,000 TROOPS FROM SOUTH KOREA IF SEOUL DOES NOT PAY MORE MONEY TO MAINTAIN THE U.S. DEPLOYMENT THERE. THE PENTAGON DENIED THE REPORT, WHICH APPEARED TO ECHO OTHER REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DEMANDED GREATER CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SOUTH KOREA AND JAPAN TO SUPPORT THE U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN THOSE COUNTRIES.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG UN ORDERED AN ARTILLERY FIRING DRILL NEAR THE DISPUTED BORDER IN THE SEA OFF THE WESTERN COAST, STATE-RUN MEDIA REPORTED MONDAY, PROMPTING A PROTEST FROM SOUTH KOREA』S MILITARY.
THREE MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH KOREAN GIRL BAND TWICE (PICTURE), DUBBED THE SECOND MOST POPULAR IN JAPAN AFTER BTS, ARE FROM JAPAN. BUT OFFICIALS OF JYP ENTERTAINMENT, THE SOUTH KOREAN AGENCY BACKING TWICE, ARE RELUCTANT TO GIVE COMMENTS ON THEIR SUCCESS IN JAPAN AND ON THE FACT THAT THREE MEMBERS OF THE BAND ARE FROM JAPAN.
THE FAILURE OF THE MOST RECENT ROUND OF TALKS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH KOREA ON HOW TO EQUITABLY SHARE THE COSTS OF AMERICAN TROOPS ON THE PENINSULA IS DANGEROUS TO THE FUTURE OF THIS CRUCIAL ALLIANCE, WHICH HAS KEPT THE PEACE IN NORTHEAST ASIA FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADES. THE ALLIANCE HAS ALSO UNDERPINNED SOUTH KOREA』S PROSPERITY AND FOSTERED TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS INCREASINGLY BENEFICIAL TO AMERICA.
BUSAN - SOUTH KOREA AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA MAY HAVE DEEPENED TIES AND COOPERATION IN NUMEROUS AREAS, BUT OBSERVERS SAY THE PARTNERSHIP STILL LACKS A "LEGACY PROJECT" THAT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY.
THE PM MET WITH THE SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT, MOON JAE-IN IN BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA YESTERDAY, WHERE HE ACKNOWLEDGED SOUTH KOREA』S INCREASING ROLE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND ITS SUPPORT DURING THAILAND』S ASEAN CHAIRMANSHIP THIS YEAR. THE PM ALSO RECOGNISES SOUTH KOREA』S EXPERTISE IN TECHNOLOGICAL SECTORS SUCH AS ELECTRIC CARS, ROBOTICS AND BIO-ENGINEERING, ENCOURAGING THE COUNTRY TO INVEST IN THAILAND』S TECHNOLOGY SECTOR.
THE COMMENTS FOLLOWED THE PENTAGON SAYING THURSDAY THERE WAS 「ABSOLUTELY NO TRUTH」 TO A REPORT IN CHOSUN ILBO, SOUTH KOREA』S BIGGEST NEWSPAPER, THAT THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WAS 「CURRENTLY CONSIDERING REMOVING ANY TROOPS FROM THE KOREAN PENINSULA.」 THE U.S. MAINTAINING A 28,500-STRONG CONTINGENT ON THE PENINSULA TO DETER NORTH KOREAN AGGRESSION.
SIMMERING TENSIONS BETWEEN THE TWO NEIGHBORS EXPLODED AFTER SOUTH KOREA』S SUPREME COURT RULED LATE LAST YEAR THAT JAPANESE COMPANIES SHOULD PAY REPARATIONS TO SOUTH KOREANS FOR FORCED LABOR DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. JAPAN INSISTS THAT ALL WARTIME CLAIMS WERE SETTLED WHEN IT AND SOUTH KOREA ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC TIES IN 1965.

 

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