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  • Vice FM calls for multilateral responses to human rights challenges posed by new technologies

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    Vice FM calls for multilateral responses to human rights challenges posed by new technologies

    Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-moon has called for multilateral cooperation in addressing the challenges of new and emerging technologies to the efforts to protect human rights at a global forum, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Choi made the call at a virtual session of the Alliance for Multilateralism, a forum launched in 2019 to reinforce multilateralism, on Wednesday (Geneva time), as concerns rise that artificial intelligence and other digital technologies could hurt privacy and other

  • US, S. Korea in consultation over Iranian assets locked in Seoul: Price

    US, S. Korea in consultation over Iranian assets locked in Seoul: Price

    The United States and South Korea are in consultation over the possible release of Iranian assets locked in South Korea, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday. Ned Price, however, noted no Iranian funds have been released. "The government of South Korea, the ROK, has made clear it has not released the $1 billion in funds to Iran," the department spokesman told a daily press briefing. His remarks came shortly after Tehran claimed Seoul will first release $1 billion out of about

    Today

  • FM stresses Seoul’s ‘sincerity’ in efforts to release frozen Iranian assets

    FM stresses Seoul’s ‘sincerity’ in efforts to release frozen Iranian assets

    Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong told his Iranian counterpart Wednesday that South Korea is making sincere efforts to release Tehran’s assets frozen in Seoul, the foreign ministry said.  The phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif came a day after Tehran claimed that it had reached an agreement with Seoul on the transfer and use of $7 billion of its funds frozen in South Korean banks due to US sanctions. South Korea later said that the two sides agreed in pr

    Feb 24, 2021

  • US, S. Korea may discuss Iran sanctions but no money transferred yet: State Dept.

    US, S. Korea may discuss Iran sanctions but no money transferred yet: State Dept.

    WASHINGTON -- The United States and South Korea may discuss the proposed release of Iranian funds held in South Korea, but no money has yet been transferred, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday, noting the allies often discuss such issues. Ned Price said it would not be a surprise if the allies are already in such discussions, but noted no money has been transferred yet. "We don't have a comment precisely on that, precisely because there has been no transfer of funds," the depa

    Feb 24, 2021

  • Vice FM says 'comfort women' tragedy must be addressed as 'universal human rights issue'

    Vice FM says 'comfort women' tragedy must be addressed as 'universal human rights issue'

    Second Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-moon has said that the tragedy surrounding victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery must be addressed as a "universal human rights issue," vowing to continue Seoul's efforts to restore their dignity. Choi made the remarks in a prerecorded speech for the virtual high-level segment of the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (Geneva time), as the issue of the wartime sexual slavery resurfaced with a Harvard professor's much-criticized claim that the

    Feb 24, 2021

  • US missile defense 'clearly focused' on N. Korea: Gen. Hyten

    US missile defense 'clearly focused' on N. Korea: Gen. Hyten

    WASHINGTON -- The United States' missile defense capability is "clearly" focused on North Korea and must continue to advance to meet evolving threats from the country, the vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday. Gen. John Hyten argued the North poses one of the most immediate threats to the US in that the country has a real potential of using its weapons against the US. "Our national missile defense capability is clearly focused on North Korea right now, not

    Feb 24, 2021

  • Top diplomats of S. Korea, Britain discuss bilateral cooperation, G7 summit

    Top diplomats of S. Korea, Britain discuss bilateral cooperation, G7 summit

    The top diplomats of South Korea and Britain spoke over the phone Tuesday and discussed joint efforts to expand bilateral cooperation in climate change and other areas, the foreign ministry said. In the phone talks, Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong agreed with his British counterpart, Dominic Raab, to use upcoming events, like the Group of Seven (G7) summit and the Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals (P4G), as occasions to further strengthen cooperation. It was the first phone co

    Feb 23, 2021

  • Vice FM urges N. Korea to return to nuke dialogue at UN disarmament conference

    Vice FM urges N. Korea to return to nuke dialogue at UN disarmament conference

    First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun urged North Korea on Tuesday to return to denuclearization talks, saying that the peace process on the Korean Peninsula is the path that must be taken, the foreign ministry said. Choi made the remark in a speech he delivered virtually for the high-level segment of the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, as he explained Seoul‘s ongoing efforts to engage with Pyongyang toward the goal of building a nuclear-free peninsula and lasting peace in t

    Feb 23, 2021

  • Seoul says unfreezing Iranian fund in Korea requires US approval first

    Seoul says unfreezing Iranian fund in Korea requires US approval first

    The South Korean Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said unfreezing Iranian assets held in Korean banks would require prior approval from the US, denying Tehran’s claim that a deal had already been reached.    On Monday, Tehran announced that the two sides had reached an agreement on transferring the frozen Iranian assets to their desired destinations, during a discussion between Central Bank of Iran Gov. Abdolnaser Hemmati and Korean Ambassador to Iran Ryu Jeong-hyun.   According to the

    Feb 23, 2021

  • US working closely with S. Korea to maintain joint defense readiness: Pentagon official

    US working closely with S. Korea to maintain joint defense readiness: Pentagon official

    The US and South Korea have maintained an adequate level of defense readiness and will continue to do so, an official from the US Department of Defense said Monday. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby also said the South Korea-US alliance will continue to remain strong as ever. "As Gen. Abrams has said many times, we do have to maintain a significant level of readiness on the peninsula," Kirby said, referring to Robert Abrams, commander of US Forces Korea. "And the secretary is confi

    Feb 23, 2021

  • US will build on 'Quad' to deal with China: State Dept.

    US will build on 'Quad' to deal with China: State Dept.

    The United States will continue to build on its multilateral dialogue in the Indo-Pacific, known as the Quad, to face many challenges in the region, including China, a spokesman for the US State Department said Monday. Ned Price also said the Quad will play a central role in the region. "When it comes to the Quad...it's an example of the United States and some of our closest partners pulling together for the good of a free and open Indo-Pacific," the department spokesman told a press

    Feb 23, 2021

  • Foreign ministry calls in Japanese diplomat over Tokyo's renewed Dokdo claims

    Foreign ministry calls in Japanese diplomat over Tokyo's renewed Dokdo claims

    The foreign ministry called in a Japanese diplomat in Seoul on Monday to lodge a protest over Japan's renewed claims to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo. Kim Jung-han, the ministry's director general for Asian Pacific affairs, expressed regrets to Hirohisa Soma, deputy head of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, after the Japanese prefecture of Shimane held an annual event to publicize Japan's claim to the rocky outcroppings in the East Sea. The latest flare-up of tensions came

    Feb 22, 2021

  • Harvard professor urged to offer apology for 'comfort women' claims

    Harvard professor urged to offer apology for 'comfort women' claims

    A controversy surrounding a Harvard professor who wrote a journal article depicting victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery as voluntary prostitutes continues to escalate, with scholars, politicians and students demanding apologies and a retraction.   In the paper, titled “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War” and published online in the International Review of Law and Economics, Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi professor of Japanese legal studies at Harvard Law School, argued t

    Feb 21, 2021

  • Joint efforts of S. Korea, Japan critical to denuclearization of N. Korea: State Dept.

    Joint efforts of S. Korea, Japan critical to denuclearization of N. Korea: State Dept.

    Any US effort to denuclearize North Korea will not be as effective without the support and close cooperation of both South Korea and Japan, a US State Department official said Friday, highlighting the importance of the two US allies working together. Ned Price, press secretary at the State Department, also said three-way cooperation between the countries is important to promoting their shared values in the Indo-Pacific region. “We know that any approach to North Korea, one that puts den

    Feb 20, 2021

  • Anti-Asian crimes a disgrace to US, must be stopped: US lawmakers

    Anti-Asian crimes a disgrace to US, must be stopped: US lawmakers

    A group of US lawmakers,including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on Friday insisted on an immediate stop to racially motivated crimes, including those targeting Asian Americans, calling them a total disgrace to the country. The call comes amid a sharp increase in anti-Asian hate crimes. “I always say, ‘Our diversity is our strength, our unity is our power,’ and we have unity on this subject. So thank you for the opportunity to salute you, and this precedent to call attention to s

    Feb 20, 2021

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