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Former President Park Geun-hye at her home in Dalseong County, Daegu, on Sept. 11. [KWON HYUK-JAE]

'Glad I finished Thaad, Gsomia before going to prison'

Throughout my life I have prioritized my public duties over my person life. I see that as my destiny. Even though I am no longer actively involved in frontline politics, I remain committed to contributing, even in a small way, to my country.

2023.9.26

The U.S. Navy Arleigh-Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur launches a harpoon surface-to-surface missile during Pacific Vanguard (PACVAN) quadrilateral exercises between Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea, and U.S. Naval forces in the Philippine Sea May 26, 2019. [REUTERS]

Alliance between Korea and Japan may prove difficult

Support is slim in South Korea for a military alliance with Japan, an idea the U.S. government reportedly wants to float during an upcoming trilateral summit later this month…

2023.8.2

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President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks on the normalization of Korea-Japan relations at a Cabinet meeting held at the presidential office in Yongsan, central Seoul, Tuesday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Korea fully restores military intel pact with Japan

South Korea's Foreign Ministry confirmed Tuesday that the government has fully restored the General Security of Military Information Agreement (Gsomia), the country's bilateral military intelligence-sharing with Japan.

2023.3.21

National Security Adviser Kim Sung-han gives a briefing on President Yoon Suk Yeol's two-day visit to Japan later this week at the Yonsan presidential office in central Seoul Tuesday. [NEWS1]

Yoon-Kishida summit to signal 'normalization' of relations

President Yoon Suk Yeol will make a two-day visit to Tokyo from Thursday for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, signaling the "normalization" of relations, according to his national security adviser Tuesday.

2023.3.14

Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands prior to holding bilateral talks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Nov. 13, 2022. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

Yoon and Kishida to meet for summit in Tokyo on March 16 and 17

President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit Tokyo from March 16 to 17 for a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the presidential office said Thursday.

2023.3.9

Members of a civic group rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Monday to protest a revision in Japan's national security strategy that would give the country counterstrike capabilities. [NEWS1]

Japan 'counterstrike capabilities' raise constitutional questions

Japan's development of "counterstrike capabilities" would create knotty constitutional questions for South Korea and command-and-control complexities in the event of hostilities with the North...

2022.12.19

Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands before a bilateral summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Sunday. [YONHAP]

Yoon, Biden, Kishida agree to real-time intel sharing

The leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States agreed to share information about North Korean missiles in Cambodia Sunday.

2022.11.14

Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong, right, and Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori, left, during a meeting in Seoul on June 8. [YONHAP]

Korea, Japan inching back to intelligence-sharing pact

Top figures in Korea and Japan are expressing interest in returning to an intelligence sharing pact that was suspended in 2019 over bitter historical disputes. Soon after Korea’s Foreign Minister Park Jin said in a joint press conference with U.S....

2022.6.16