Korean Peninsula
South Korea seeks Singapore support for North Korea dialogue
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Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on May 29 that South Korea has asked Singapore to support efforts to create conditions for dialogue with North Korea. Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan visited Seoul after trips to China and North Korea.
Yonhap News Agency hosted its annual Korean Peninsula Symposium in Seoul on Friday to discuss security policy amid weakening alliances and economic security challenges such as supply chain disruptions.
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Prime Minister Kim Min-seok called on China to play a positive role in creating conditions for inter-Korean and U.S.-North Korea talks during a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on June 23 in Dalian.
South Korea has joined as a co-sponsor of this year's U.N. resolution on North Korean human rights, the foreign ministry said on March 28, despite expectations that Seoul might abstain amid conciliatory gestures toward Pyongyang.
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South Korea's ambassador to the US stated that Seoul is closely monitoring possibilities for renewed US-North Korea dialogue during President Donald Trump's upcoming China visit, considering global factors like ongoing wars and alliances.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing of long-range surface-to-air missiles on Wednesday at a site near the country's east coast, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. The test aimed to assess technology for developing a new type of high-altitude missile and successfully destroyed airborne targets 200 km away.
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President Lee Jae-myung called on Friday for officials to make preemptive efforts to reduce tensions with North Korea, saying Seoul needs to patiently seek a path to restore trust with Pyongyang. At a policy briefing by the ministries of foreign affairs and unification, he urged sparing no efforts to proactively ease hostilities between the two sides.
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