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6 days ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Song Sang-ho |Chae Yun-hwan |Kim Dong-Hyun |Lee Haye-ah
Quotes of the Day:“Nevertheless, at the moment that I write, geopolitics has a very particular tendency. Let me explain. A worldwide, bipolar military conflict has begun. It will progress in stages, feature hot war in certain places for extended periods of time, and cold war in other places and times. It will be the organizing principle of geopolitics for a few years to come.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Stavros Atlamazoglou |Song Sang-ho |Kim Dong-Hyun
Quotes of the Day:"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal." – Friedrich Nietzsche“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”– Isaac Asimov“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson1. US Forces Korea leader says his troops deter China, guard ‘freedom’s front yard’2. N.K. leader Kim oversees anti-air combat, air raid drills, calls for stronger war preparations3. N.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho |Kim Dong-Hyun
(ATTN: UPDATES throughout; RECASTS headline, lead; ADDS photos)By Song Sang-ho and Kim Dong-hyun WASHINGTON, March 17 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory contractor employee was terminated after attempting to board a flight to South Korea with export controlled information on nuclear reactor design software, a report showed Monday. Idaho National Laboratory (INL) terminated the person during the reporting period from Oct.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho |Kim Dong-Hyun
By Song Sang-ho and Kim Dong-hyun WASHINGTON, March 17 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contractor employee was terminated after attempting to board a flight to South Korea with export-controlled information on nuclear reactor design software, a report showed Monday. Idaho National Laboratory (INL), one of the DOE's national laboratories, terminated the person during the reporting period from Oct.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho |Kim Dong-Hyun
By Song Sang-ho and Kim Dong-hyun WASHINGTON, March 15 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. energy security expert has raised the prospects of South Korea getting geopolitical benefits from its potential participation in an Alaska liquefied natural gas (LNG) project amid U.S. President Donald Trump's drive for "reciprocity" with security allies and trading partners.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho |Cho Joon-hyung |Kim Dong-Hyun
By Song Sang-ho, Cho Joon-hyung and Kim Dong-hyun WASHINGTON, March 6 (Yonhap) -- Experts underscored the need Thursday to crank up diplomacy to pitch South Korea's contribution to the U.S. economy to counter President Donald Trump's apparently negative perception of the Asian ally as a trading partner, though the absence of leader-to-leader engagement remains an onerous hurdle to that effort.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho |Kim Dong-Hyun
By Song Sang-ho and Kim Dong-hyun WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated a former White House official who was involved in diplomacy with North Korea during his first term, as under secretary of state for political affairs, according to Congress. Earlier this week, Trump notified Congress of the decision to nominate Allison Hooker, who previously served as senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, according to Congress' website.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Song Sang-ho |Kim Dong-Hyun |Young Kim |Mathias Hammer
Quotes of the Day:"Only life lived for others is worthwhile." - Albert Einstein“Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho |Kim Dong-Hyun
By Song Sang-ho and Kim Dong-hyun WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (Yonhap) -- A prominent U.S. expert has advised South Korea to signal to incoming U.S. President Donald Trump Seoul's efforts to help reduce America's trade deficit as the Asian ally and other countries are pondering how to navigate through Trump's plans to impose new tariffs on foreign goods.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho |Kim Dong-Hyun
By Song Sang-ho and Kim Dong-hyun WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) -- Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun said Thursday he has stressed to U.S. lawmakers that South Korea has been stably managing its economy and industries, as the Asian country has been thrust into a period of political uncertainty following President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched martial law bid last month.
