Yoon Suk-yeol

Statistics Korea, a government operation run by the South Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance, released data on Monday that showed the population rose by 0.2 percent in 2023.

The armed forces of South Korea began what they confirmed will be daily, unceasing loudspeaker broadcasts on the border with North Korea on Friday, typically featuring anti-communist content, news banned by the Kim regime, and South Korean popular music.

According to North Korean state media, dictator Kim Jong-un sent a message of sympathy to former president Donald Trump and his family on Saturday night after the failed assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday issued a statement condemning North Korea’s weapons exports to Russia and expressing concern about the alliance between Pyongyang and Moscow.

South Korean officials reported that North Korea has ordered all of its overseas students to return home for “political indoctrination.”

The Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS), a South Korean state-managed think tank, published a report this week suggesting that the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol should consider developing a nuclear weapons arsenal in response to North Korea signing a mutual defense treaty with Russia.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin sent a letter to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un thanking him for a warm welcome in Pyongyang.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin said South Korea deciding to offer weapons aid to Ukraine would be a “very big mistake,” threatening “respective decisions” that would anger Seoul in remarks on Thursday responding to South Korea announcing it would consider arming Ukraine.

South Korea expressed “grave concern” about Russia’s defense pact with North Korea and is considering supplying arms to Ukraine in response.

South Korea confirmed that between 20 and 30 North Korean soldiers crossed the inter-Korean border, violating the sovereignty of the country.

South Korea installed massive loudspeakers on its border with North Korea and broadcast news, political messages, and pop music for the first time in a decade on Sunday in response to Pyongyang dumping hundreds of balloons filled with feces and trash over its neighbor this month.

The government of North Korea said on Sunday that it will stop sending balloons loaded with trash and manure into South Korea, ostensibly because the regime in Pyongyang thinks the trash balloon campaign accomplished its objectives. South Korea was not mollified, and said on Monday it will suspend a 2018 military pact as the first of its “unendurable” retaliatory measures.

The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, signed a “Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)” alongside South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul on Wednesday, dramatically expanding trade between the two countries.

North Korea on Monday lashed out at South Korea, Japan, and even Pyongyang’s patron China for supporting the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at a summit in Seoul.

Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his officials to begin a “complete review” of all federal birth rate policies.

Officials with the South Korean military confirmed on Monday that communist North Korea had littered roads between North and South Korea with landmines and begun taking down streetlights installed on them.

Multiple senior members of conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol’s administration and the head of his People Power Party (PPP) tendered their resignations on Thursday after vote counts confirmed that the left-wing Democratic Party decisively took over the National Assembly in Wednesday’s midterm election.

Exit polls in South Korea’s midterm elections on Wednesday predicted a landslide win for the left-wing Democratic Party (DP) and its “sister party,” the Democratic United Party (DUP).

Conservatives in South Korea urged voters to help them stop an “immoral and shameless” left from taking a majority in the National Assembly on Tuesday, the eve of midterm elections preceded by a chaotic campaign season featuring stabbings, corruption allegations, and alleged North Korean interference.

The governments of South Korea and Japan confirmed on Tuesday that communist North Korea fired a projectile believed to be carrying a “hypersonic warhead” and potentially capable of striking the American island of Guam.

About 10,000 trainee doctors in South Korea entered their second month of a nationwide strike in late March, forcing hospitals into “emergency mode” and shutting down critical sectors, including emergency wards, Korean news agencies confirmed Wednesday and Thursday.

South Korea seeks early renewal of a defense agreement, anticipating Donald Trump will return to office and demand much higher contributions.

The Interior Ministry of South Korea confirmed that it “intends to take administrative action” against thousands of striking doctors.

Police in South Korea executed raids on the Seoul and Gangwon Province offices of the Korean Medical Association (KMA) on Friday as part of the government’s response to an ongoing nationwide strike by trainee doctors that has devastated hospitals’ ability to sustain a functional healthcare system.

South Korea filed its first legal complaint against striking doctors on the grounds that the doctors were engaging in criminal behavior.

Some major hospitals in South Korea have canceled as many as 50 percent of scheduled surgeries between Tuesday and Friday as a result of a massive health worker walkout in which nearly 80 percent of trainee doctors have tendered resignations to their employers.

The South Korean healthcare system was paralyzed on Tuesday by a doctor’s strike, forcing delays in scheduled surgeries and raising public anxiety that essential hospital services will be unavailable.

The government of self-proclaimed conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced on Thursday that it had established diplomatic ties with the Communist Party of Cuba, disregarding Cuba’s close ties to North Korea, its long history of espionage, its status as a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism, and its deplorable human rights record.

The Gunma Prefecture of Japan last week removed a memorial to Korean victims of Imperial Japan’s forced labor policy during World War II.

South Korea and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly research and develop new weapons technology.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told attendees at a major defense council meeting on Wednesday that the “irrational” communist regime North Korea would likely execute “many provocations aimed at interfering in our elections,” scheduled for April.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un declared South Korea should be named “primary foe and invariable principal enemy.”

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered troops near the North Korean border to immediately respond to any attack without concern for bureaucracy, waiting to report incidents until after the threat has been neutralized.

The industry publication Energy Intelligence reported that South Korea increased the amount of crude oil it imported from Saudi Arabia.

King Charles III hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife at a glittering banquet at Buckingham Palace Tuesday.

President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea told American Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a dinner this weekend that Seoul is concerned about the possibility of a “Hamas-style surprise attack” from North Korea, requesting unity in South Korean and American military defenses to protect his civilians from such a siege.