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CIA ran previously undisclosed office in Seoul until 2020: Sources
The existence of the office, which was used to collect open-source intelligence on South Korea as part of the CIA's Open Source Enterprise, became known after three former employees sued the US government for firing them, Yonhap news Agency quoted the sources as saying. The plaintiffs, all South Koreans, were hired between 2005 and 2009 and laid off around February and March of last year.
Moon asks Pope Francis to visit N.Korea
Moon made the offer during a meeting with the Pope at the Vatican on Friday, saying a papal visit to North Korea will serve as momentum for bringing peace on the Korean Peninsula, reports Yonhap News Agency. The Pope encouraged Moon, saying: "I am willing to go there for peace and help all of you if (North Korea) sends a letter of invitation," according to Park.
'US, S.Korea to continue discussing end-of-war declaration'
Kim reiterated Washington's willingness to help address the North's humanitarian concerns for its people in need, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic, speaking to reporters right after a meeting here with his South Korean counterpart, Noh Kyu-duk, Yonhap News Agency reported. He also called on Pyongyang to stop "provocations" and other destabilizing activities, and return to dialogue.
S.Korea fails to launch 1st homegrown rocket
The KSLV-II rocket, also known as Nuri, flew to a target altitude of 700 km but failed to place the 1.5-tonne dummy satellite into orbit, President Moon Jae-in said in a press briefing at the Naro Space Centre in the southern coastal village of Goheung. Moon said South Korea plans to conduct another launch of the Nuri space rocket next year
South Korea prepares to launch 1st homegrown space launch vehicle
The KSLV-II, also known as Nuri, is set to blast off from the Naro Space Center in the country's southern coastal village of Goheung at around 4 p.m., Yonhap News Agency quoted the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) as saying. If successful, the Nuri rocket will be South Korea's first space vehicle wholly designed and built in the country.
US representative for N.Korea to visit Seoul this week
Kim's trip to Seoul will follow his meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts, Noh Kyu-duk and Takehiro Funakoshi, respectively, in Washington this week, reports Yonhap News Agency. "Special Representative Noh and I had an excellent meeting this afternoon in advance of tomorrow's (Tuesday) trilateral meeting with Japanese Director-General Funakoshi," the US diplomat told reporters after his meeting with Noh at the State Department on Monday.
S.Korean Vice FM leaves for Europe for talks on security, diplomatic ties
The week-long trip by Choi will also take him to Belgium where he will attend the seventh session of the Korea-EU High-level Political Dialogue for in-depth discussions on ways to boost their ties and regional security circumstances, Yonhap news Agency quoted the office as saying.
S.Korean nuke envoy pins hope on end-of-war declaration
Noh Kyu-duk made the remark on Saturday ahead of his meetings with his US and Japanese counterparts in Washington later this week to explore ways to bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table, Yonhap News Agency reported. The upcoming talks will likely touch on President Moon Jae-in's recent proposal to declare a formal end to the Korean War.
'N.Korea may be considering engaging with S.Korea, rest of the world'
"We've seen a sequence of events that many analysts have interpreted as increasingly provocative behaviour by North Korea," Biegun said on Friday while addressing a webinar co-hosted by George Washington University's Institute for Korean Studies and the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management, a state-run institute based in Sejong, South Korea.
Top nuke envoys of S.Korea, US, Japan to meet in Washington
The planned talks among South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator, Noh Kyu-duk, and his US and Japanese counterparts, Sung Kim and Takehiro Funakoshi, come as Seoul is stepping up diplomacy to salvage its peace drive following a recent series of North Korean missile launches, including a hypersonic one last month, reports Yonhap News Agency.
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