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Blue House urges North Korea to immediately halt illegal missile launches

The National Security Office called Pyongyang's latest ballistic missile launches a grave violation of international sanctions.

2026.10.12

Jung Dae-jin, professor of global business at Halla University, who was appointed unification policy secretary at the presidential National Security Office [JOONGANG ILBO]

Jung Dae-jin appointed as unification policy secretary

Jung Dae-jin, a professor of global business at Halla University in Wonju, has been appointed unification policy secretary at the presidential National Security Office, sources said Monday.

2025.8.25

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Officials take part in a meeting to review the security and economic situation in the Middle East co-chaired by Sung Tae-yoon, director of national policy at the presidential office, and Kim Tae-hyo, principal deputy national security adviser, at the Yongsan presidential office in central Seoul on Sunday. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

Presidential office to monitor Middle East 'around the clock' following Iran's attack on Israel

President Yoon Suk Yeol called for all-out measures to protect Korean nationals amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran.

2024.10.27

New National Security Adviser Shin Won-sik speaks during a press briefing at the Yongsan presidential office in central Seoul on Sunday. [NEWS1]

New gov't cybersecurity plan to require portals self-regulate against propaganda

The presidential office announced Sunday a new comprehensive plan to enhance national cybersecurity that will require portals and platform operators such as Naver and YouTube to strengthen self-regulation against online propaganda and agitation.

2024.9.1

President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, salutes the flag at his first Cabinet meeting of the New Year at the Yongsan presidential office in central Seoul on Tuesday, joined by his ministers. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Yoon urges 'restoration' of public livelihood during first Cabinet meeting of the year

The presidential office also said it will formally establish the new position of third deputy national security adviser to oversee economic security on Thursday.

2024.1.9

New presidential national security deputy adviser appointed

Army reserve Major General Yin Sung-hwan is known to be a specialist in joint operations with the U.S. military. Yin was awarded the Legion of Merit (LOM), the highest honor conferred by the U.S. government on a foreign soldier.

2023.9.27

President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks at a Cabinet meeting at the presidential office on Aug. 29. [YONHAP]

South seeks to track and freeze North's crypto assets

The South Korean government plans to submit a bill to track and freeze North Korean cryptocurrency and virtual assets used to fund Pyongyang's illicit weapons programs, multiple government sources said Sunday.

2023.9.4

Smoke billows in Khartoum, Sudan on Thursday, as fighting between the country's army and rival paramilitary forces continues. [YONHAP VIA AFP]

C-130 dispatched to evacuate Koreans in Sudan

Korea will send a military transport aircraft to evacuate its nationals from Sudan as clashes continue between the country's armed forces and paramilitary groups, the Defense Ministry said Friday.

2023.4.21

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho District, southern Seoul, sought an arrest warrant for Suh Hoon, the former national security adviser, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Arrest warrant sought for former national security adviser Suh Hoon

Prosecutors asked for the arrest of former national security adviser Suh Hoon over allegations that he ordered the deletion of evidence in the murder of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in 2020.

2022.11.29

From left, former National Security Adviser Suh Hoon, former Blue House Chief of Staff Noh Young-min and former National Intelligence Service Director Park Jie-won hold a joint press conference on the death of a fisheries official in 2020 at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, Thursday. [NEWS1]

Blue House bigwigs deny evidence fiddling in 2020 murder at sea

Top security officials from the Moon Jae-in administration denied deleting documents and mishandling the murder of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korea soldiers in September 2020.

2022.10.27