Kim Dong-Hyun

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | 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.

2 months ago | 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.