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Carmaker Renault Korea Motors is embroiled in a misandry backlash online sparked by promotional content, which has drawn attention to a particular pinching gesture in South Korean society deemed offensive.
Fred Fleitz, a former top Trump security official, arrived in Seoul this week in an apparent bid to assuage Korean fears, denying in local media interviews that Trump had threatened to withdraw US troops unless Seoul paid billions of dollars more.
As the monsoon belatedly dumps rains on South and Southeast Asia, the region’s East is bracing for a sweltering summer, with unseasonable swarms of “lovebugs” early in South Korea and Japan’s meteorological authorities cautioning that the coming months are going to be even hotter than last year.
Gary Samore, a nuclear arms control expert at Brandeis University, said during a seminar in Seoul on Tuesday that recent steps taken by Washington and Seoul showed such an arrangement could become a reality.
But analysts argue the South may have misinterpreted the test, with one suggesting Seoul “might have mistaken” the payload module deploying warheads for the missile itself exploding.
“North Korea fired a ballistic missile from Pyongyang to the East Sea at 5.30am this morning. The missile is believed to have failed,” the South Korean military chiefs said in a statement.
Experts say such moves would prompt significant strategic shifts. Seoul’s threatened provision of lethal aid to Ukraine could help Kyiv achieve a “breakthrough” in its ongoing conflict with Russia. Conversely, Moscow’s threats to arm North Korea could escalate regional tensions and provoke a military response from the South and its allies.
Observers warn the months-long strike may continue indefinitely unless the government demonstrates greater willingness to negotiate drastically increasing medical school admission quotas and address other key issues facing healthcare professionals.