Max Kim

2 months ago | armscontrol.org | Max Kim

Will Korea’s ‘sensitive’ country designation impair cooperation with U.S.? - Los Angeles Times

2 months ago | latimes.com | Max Kim

South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo speaks to the media Monday as he arrives at the Government Complex in Seoul. South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was reinstated as acting president on Monday after the country’s Constitutional Court dismissed the impeachment motion passed by the National Assembly late last year. Han was handed the reins to the country after lawmakers impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol on Dec.

2 months ago | latimes.com | Max Kim

A missile is fired during a joint training exercixe between the U.S. and South Korea at an undisclosed location in South Korea in May 2022. The U.S. has put South Korea on the “Sensitive Country List” despite being an ally. A revelation that the U.S. Department of Energy has designated South Korea as a “sensitive country” — a label reserved for nations deemed to pose a threat to national security or nuclear nonproliferation — has left South Korean officials scrambling for answers.

Mar 6, 2025 | latimes.com | Max Kim

Caribou graze in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. President Trump said on Tuesday that South Korea and other countries want to work with the U.S. on a 800-mile pipeline to transport gas drilled from Alaska’s North Slope. In his speech to Congress on Tuesday, President Trump said that South Korea, alongside other countries such as Japan, wanted to invest “trillions of dollars each” in a $44-billion liquefied natural gas pipeline in Alaska that he has touted since taking office.

Mar 3, 2025 | latimes.com | Max Kim

Several times a week, Washington-based immigration attorney Chun Jong-Joon gets a phone call from yet another flabbergasted . All have made the same discovery: They or their U.S.-born children hold South Korean citizenship and cannot give it up. He explains the reason: an amendment made to South Korean citizenship law two decades ago. By the time they call Chun, they are in the grip of the law’s many real-life implications.