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• 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...

• President Lee 'reaffirmed bilateral trust with US in talks with T...

  Aug 29, 2025

  President Lee Jae Myung on Aug. 25 signs the guestbook of the Oval Office at the White House in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump looking on. (Office of the President) By Kang Gahui President Lee Jae-Myung says he reaffirmed strong bilateral trust with the U.S. through his recent summit in Washington after returning home early on Aug. 28 from his four-day visit to the U.S. On his ...

• 'Summit with US made major progress in Korean peace process'

  Aug 27, 2025

  President Lee Jae Myung (left) on Aug. 25 poses for photos with U.S. President Donald Trump after their bilateral summit at the White House in Washington. (Office of the President) By Charles Audouin President Lee Jae Myung calls his recent summit with U.S. President Donald Trump "a meaningful opportunity to achieve major progress in the Korean Peninsula peace process through modernizing the...

• President Lee visits Philadelphia shipyard, reaffirms ties in sec...

  Aug 27, 2025

  President Lee Jae Myung on Aug. 26 delivers a congratulatory speech at the christening ceremony of the State of Maine, a ship under the National Security Multi-mission Vessel program of the U.S. Department of Transportation, at Hanwha Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia. (Yonhap News) By Park Hye Ri President Lee Jae Myung on the afternoon of Aug. 26 reaffirmed his pledge to expand bilateral coo...