North Korean experts said Thursday it would be a mistake for US President Joe Biden to build on the 2018 Singapore agreement to address North Korea’s denuclearization. South Korean President Moon Jae-in has suggested Washington start re-engaging with Pyongyang based on the deal. “What the administration should strive for instead is a comprehensive, well-crafted agreement such as the arms control agreements we had with the Soviet Union,” Bruce Klingner, a senior research fell

South Korea is preparing 250 vaccination centers across the country as it looks to kick off a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program next month. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Friday that the government was moving ahead of schedule with its preparations to start the program after it became possible that the first batch of purchased vaccines will come before the Lunar New Year holiday, as opposed to originally expected timeframe of late next month. The government is planning to i

Nearly five out of ten North Koreans were undernourished from 2017 to 2019, the highest in the Asia-Pacific region, the UN said in an inter-agency report. East Timor and Afghanistan followed. In the same period, seven out of ten North Korean children aged two or below did not have minimum acceptable diet. In the report released Wednesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Program, World Health Organization and UNICEF, seven out of ten infants younger than six months old i

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Concerns are being raised about the possibility of Seoul falling out of step with new US President Joe Biden’s administration in dealing with the nuclear-armed North Korean regime. South Korean President Moon Jae-in recently made clear his intention to continue to push his peace agenda for the peninsula, which is criticized for having ignored or belittled growing nuclear threats from Pyongyang. In his New Year’s address, Moon vowed to make a “last-ditch” effort to reviv

President Moon Jae-in said in his New Year’s press conference that South Korea could discuss the joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington with North Korea if necessary.　 That is his response to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s statement at the recent congress of the Workers’ Party that the South and the US should suspend their combined military drills.　 It is unbelievable that the president of South Korea would come out with such a risky response, one that shake