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TAIPEI/KINMEN, Taiwan — Taiwan has not increased military deployments on frontline islands facing China and there is nothing unusual in the military situation around Taiwan, the defence ministry said on Wednesday (Feb 21) amid a rise in tensions with Beijing.
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.
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Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung’s deputy when he was Gyeonggi province governor had already been found guilty of bribery and transferring illegal funds in a conspiracy involving Ssangbangwool Group to send US$8 million to North Korea.
SEOUL — South Korea's main opposition leader was indicted on Wednesday (June 12) on bribery charges in an alleged scheme to use an underwear maker to transfer funds to North Korea and facilitate a visit to Pyongyang when he was a provincial governor, news reports said.
TOKYO/HONG KONG -- Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee fired back on Tuesday after a British former top court judge published a stinging criticism of the erosion of judicial independence in the city.
In his first major policy address as Singapore’s prime minister in 2004, a 52-year-old Lee Hsien Loong launched into a three-hour speech by opening with the questions: “What would the new PM be like? Would he be his own man? What mark would he put on Singapore?”
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