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• BlackRock CEO pledges to help make Korea 'Asia's AI capital'

  Sep 23, 2025

  Ha Jung-woo (center), senior presidential secretary for artificial intelligence policy and future planning, on Sept. 22 holds a news briefing at a hotel in New York on the meeting between President Lee Jae Myung and Larry Fink, CEO of the world's largest asset management company BlackRock. (Yonhap News) By Yoon Sojung President Lee Jae Myung, on a visit to New York to attend the United ...

• 'Seoul can accept Trump-Kim deal to temporarily freeze NK nukes'

  Sep 22, 2025

  By Kim Hyelin Video = BBC's official website     President Lee Jae Myung says his administration can accept a freeze on North Korea's production of nuclear weapons as "an interim emergency measure" and "a feasible, realistic alternative" to the North's denuclearisation for the time being. In an interview with the BBC released on Sept. 22 in Seoul ahead of his visit to New York to...

• President Lee to address UN General Assembly in NY, chair debate

  Sep 22, 2025

  President Lee Jae Myung (right) and first lady Kim Hea Kyung on Sept. 22 say bye to well-wishers before departing for New York at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do Province. (Yonhap News) By Kim Seon Ah President Lee Jae Myung on Sept. 22 departed on a five-day visit to New York to attend the 80th United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly. After arriving in the Big Apple, he will begin...

• 2025 summit with Japan: shift in inertia, new chapter in cooperat...

  Sep 04, 2025

  By Yuji Hosaka Professor emeritus of political science at Sejong University President Lee Jae Myung, ahead of his trip to the U.S., on Aug. 23, 2025, flew to Tokyo to attend a bilateral summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. This led to everyone questioning why President Lee chose Japan over the U.S. as his first overseas destination after taking office. Washington is typicall...

• Korea starts UNSC presidential term by opening forum on AI

  Sep 03, 2025

  Holding the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) this month, Korea hosts an open forum on artificial intelligence. Shown is a UNSC discussion on Haiti on Aug. 28 at the council's conference room at U.N. headquarters in New York. (Yonhap News) By Lee Jihae Korea on Sept. 2 finalized its schedule to begin its monthlong rotating presidency of the United Nations Se...

• President Lee on Sept. 23 to give speech at UN General Assembly

  Sep 02, 2025

  President Lee Jae Myung on Aug. 25 gives a policy speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. (Office of the President) By Kim Hyelin President Lee Jae Myung later this month will give a keynote speech at the 80th United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly. His spokesperson Kang Yu-jung on Sept. 2 told a briefing at the Office of the President in Seoul that the...

• Korea to assume rotating presidency of UNSC for September

  Sep 01, 2025

  The country on Sept. 2 will assume the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for September. Shown is the council's meeting room at U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 28 during a meeting on Haiti. (Yonhap News) By Jeon Misun Korea this month will assume the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). U.N. headquarters on Aug. 31 said Korea, a no...