The ruling People Power Party (PPP) on Saturday lauded the joint nuclear deterrence guidelines signed by Seoul and Washington, describing them as a potent deterrent against North Korea’s provocations. “Mutual trust between South Korea and the United States, restored under the Yoon Suk Yeol administration, has become a strong deterrent against the North Korean regime’s … Read more
The South Korean national football federation said Saturday it has finalized its hiring of Hong Myung-bo as the new men’s national team head coach, following a drawn-out process of replacing Jurgen Klinsmann. The Korea Football Association (KFA) said its board of directors approved Hong’s appointment in a vote held from Wednesday to Friday, with 21 … Read more
K-pop boy group Enhypen has broken its own first-week sales record by selling more than 1.88 copies of its second full-length album, a market tracker said Saturday. Sales of the album, titled “Romance: Untold,” reached 1,883,143 units on Friday alone, the day of its release, according to Hanteo Chart, a leading local album sales tracker. … Read more
National Security Adviser Chang Ho-jin said Saturday the South Korea-U.S. alliance will remain sturdy regardless of whether former American President Donald Trump regains the presidency. “Regarding the South Korea-U.S. alliance, (we) have a solid support base across both the ruling and opposition sides in the United States,” Chang said during his appearance on Yonhap News … Read more
North Korea condemned the joint nuclear deterrence guidelines signed by Seoul and Washington as a “reckless provocative act,” threatening that the allies will pay “an unimaginably harsh price” if they commit further provocations. The message was published by the official Korean Central News Agency in a press statement from a defense ministry spokesperson after South … Read more
Vietnam shipped some 29.2 billion USD worth of agro-forestry-aquatic products abroad during the January-June period, a year-on-year increase of 19%, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The sector’s trade surplus during the six-month span surged 62.4% against the same time last year to around 8.28 billion USD. Seven products and groups of … Read more