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4 days ago | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho
By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, June 2 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's administration wants countries to offer their best proposals for trade negotiations this week, a report said Monday, as it seeks to accelerate talks with trading partners.
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4 days ago | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho
WASHINGTON, June 2 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean scholar was reelected Monday as a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for the third consecutive time, according to Seoul's permanent mission to the U.N. Chung Chin-sung, professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Seoul National University, was elected for the 2026-2030 period, with support from 147 of the 176 countries that participated in the vote held at U.N. headquarters in New York.
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1 week ago | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho
By Song Sang-ho SINGAPORE, May 31 (Yonhap) -- The Pentagon chief's speech at an annual defense forum in Singapore used to highlight defense cooperation with South Korea and trilateral efforts with Japan as the United States has sought to leverage the core Asian allies for peace in the face of a provocative North Korea and an assertive China.
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1 week ago | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho
By Song Sang-ho SINGAPORE, May 31 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Saturday for Asian allies to increase their defense spending and do their part as "force multipliers," as he portrayed China's evolving threats as "real" and potentially "imminent," and warned against economic "entanglement" with the Asian superpower.
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1 week ago | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho
By Song Sang-ho SINGAPORE, May 31 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday announced a set of defense cooperation projects, including one that will enable South Korea to repair P-8 maritime patrol aircraft in the Indo-Pacific rather than relying on a repair destination in the U.S. mainland.
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1 week ago | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho
By Song Sang-ho SINGAPORE, May 29 (Yonhap) -- The United States is looking to "modernize" its alliance with South Korea and "calibrate" U.S. force posture on the Korean Peninsula to deter China, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday, apparently leaving open the possibility of an adjustment to the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) presence.
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1 week ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Matthew Olay |Song Sang-ho |Nancy Youssef |Laurence Norman
Quotes of the Day:“Everything is your fault if you are any damn good.”– Ernest Hemingway
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.
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1 week ago | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho
By Song Sang-ho JOINT BASE ANDREWS, May 28 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday reiterated America's push to work together with Indo-Pacific allies to achieve "peace through strength" and deter an assertive China while stressing the United States seeks "no conflict with anybody." Hegseth made the remarks at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as he departed for Singapore to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual premier defense forum, and other bilateral and multilateral...
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1 week ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Song Sang-ho |Ju Hyung Kim |Dasl Yoon |Jihoon Yu
Quotes of the Day:"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."– Epictetus"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."– Mark Twain“If you feel pain, you’re alive. If you feel other people’s pain, you’re a human being.”– Leo Tolstoy1. U.S. looks to 'calibrate' USFK posture to deter China: senior official2. Rethinking South Korea’s Naval Strategy for a Taiwan Strait Contingency3.
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1 week ago | 
en.yna.co.kr | Song Sang-ho
By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, May 27 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will embark on a trip to Singapore this week to attend an annual defense forum and other meetings on its sidelines as the Pentagon pursues a "shared regional vision for peace, stability, and deterrence," the Pentagon said Tuesday. Hegseth is set to depart Wednesday for Singapore to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue in the city－state, according to the Pentagon.
