https://apnews.com/article/south-korean-adoptions-investigation-united-states-europe-67d6bb03fddede7dcca199c2e3cd486e In the 1970s and 80s, South Korea tried to send babies abroad due to the rampant demand for them in Western countries. Due to rising access to birth control and abortion in Europe and the US, the amount of adoptable children lowered drastically, causing families to want to adopt. But recently, it has been discovered that the governments of… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/21/south-korea-lawmakers-vote-to-sack-prime-minister The prime minister of South Korea, Han-Duck-Soo, has been labeled as “consistently incompetent and irresponsible” and lawmakers have called for South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol to dismiss him of his duties. President Yoon is expected to make use of his power and reject the bill to fire the prime minister. South Korean lawmakers state that the prime minister… Read more »
Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65259718 On this past Thursday, Japan called an evacuation order for the island of Hokkaido due to a North Korean missile that flew near the island. This evacuation order was recalled after 30 minutes, when it was decided there was no threat. Tensions between North Korea and South Korea the entirety of this year as there have been 27… Read more »
Article: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3213324/north-korea-fires-submarine-missiles-response-huge-us-south-korea-military-drills This past Monday, North Korea released two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine as a test fire. This was in retaliation to South Korea and America conducting joint military drills and operations, and a revamping of military operations in general. The largest joint efforts in five years, this effort is known as Freedom Shield. The operation is focused… Read more »
France 24 The two Koreas on Wednesday agreed to form a united women’s hockey team and march together under a unified peninsula flag at next month’s Winter Olympics in the South, after the latest in a flurry of cross-border talks. Following a working-level meeting held at the truce village of Panmunjom, the two sides also announced that their athletes would… Read more »
It seems from Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s Day speech that North Korea is looking to lessen tensions with South Korea. They have enforced this statement by reopening telecommunications with South Korea relating to the Winter Olympics. However, many are not convinced that this communication will last due to North Korea’s tendency to quickly recoil from communication such as this…. Read more »
France 24 South Korea has proposed holding high-level talks with Pyongyang on January 9, after North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un called for a breakthrough in relations and said Pyongyang might attend the Winter Olympics. Kim Jong-Un used his annual New Year address to underscore Pyongyang’s claim that it has developed a weapons deterrent and warn that he had a “nuclear button”… Read more »
Out of all the countries involved and affected by the North Korean crisis, by far the most impacted is South Korea. Their proximity to the DPRK is surely causing distress in South Korea due to the current missile testing coming from Pyongyang. I think that it is a very smart move on South Korea’s part to be restoring ties with… Read more »
France 24 Hundreds of aircraft including two dozen stealth jets began training Monday as the United States and South Korea launched a massive combined air force exercise. The war games come a week after North Korea test-fired its most powerful missile ever, an ICBM that may be able to target the eastern seaboard of the United States.
France 24 South Korean President Moon Jae-In will meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing Thursday amid mixed US signals about potential talks to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis. Relations between Beijing and Seoul have encountered their own rough patch over the US military’s deployment of a powerful anti-missile defence system in the South to counter the… Read more »
