Song Sang-ho

1 week ago | en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, April 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's presidential front-runner Lee Jae-myung has ranked among U.S. magazine Time's 100 most influential people of 2025, its website showed Wednesday. The magazine chose Lee, former chief of the main opposition Democratic Party, in the category of leaders, offering a brief story of challenges he encountered during his early life and rise up the political ladder, and casting him as the "clear favorite" to win the June 3 presidential poll.

1 week ago | en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, April 15 (Yonhap) -- A senior Pentagon official described President Donald Trump's defense policy Tuesday as "not a recipe for isolation" but a "common sense" approach amid lingering concerns about the potential impact of Trump's America First policy on U.S. alliances and partnerships.

1 week ago | en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, April 15 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul official on Tuesday pointed to setting norms, securing a reliable supply chain for space economy and ensuring national security as priority areas for space-domain cooperation between South Korea and the United States.

1 week ago | en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho |Kim Seung-yeon

By Song Sang-ho and Kim Seung-yeon WASHINGTON/SEOUL, April 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is continuing to "actively" engage in negotiations with the United States to resolve the issue of its placement on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Sensitive and Other Designated Countries List (SCL), the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The ministry issued the statement as the SCL appears to have come into force Tuesday.

1 week ago | en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho

(ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES throughout)By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, April 14 (Yonhap) -- The United States will engage in trade negotiations with South Korea next week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, stressing the "first mover advantage," as countries are striving to strike deals with the U.S. to minimize the impact of President Donald Trump's tariff policy on their economies.