South Korea jails former hero pastor for sexually abusing North Korean teenage defectors
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Putin-Kim bromance gets a boost as Russian president gifts car to North Korean leader
Kim’s sister “courteously conveyed Kim Jong-un’s thanks to Putin to the Russian side, saying that the gift serves as a clear demonstration of the special personal relations between the top leaders,” KCNA said.
South Korean Doctors Walk Out, Protesting Plan to Increase Their Ranks
Hundreds of interns and residents in South Korea walked off the job on Tuesday, disrupting an essential service to protest the government’s plan to address a shortage of doctors by admitting more students to medical school.
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N Korea’s transformation on reunification marks paradigm shift
Late 2023 marked a notable transformation in North Korea’s long-standing pursuit of peaceful reunification with South Korea after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un noted the failure of the policy in his end-of-year speech.
Diplomacy’s untimely death leaves Koreas on ‘extremely bleak’ brink — amid fears of a Trump redux
As part of the shift, the North has also abolished government agencies responsible for inter-Korean exchanges and dialogue, with the constitution being altered to say Pyongyang’s forces should “completely occupy, subjugate, and reclaim” the South in the event of war.