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February 2025 - South Korea Special Weapons News
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- As Yoon remakes South Korea's right, lonely conservative pushes back VOA 28 Feb 2025 -- Conservative South Korean lawmaker Kim Sang-wook has received so many threats since December that his children no longer tell classmates who their father is.
- Concern grows in Washington, Seoul about China's disinformation campaign VOA 28 Feb 2025 -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in the closing statements of his impeachment trial this week said that a Chinese-backed disinformation campaign is threatening South Korea's democracy.
- Throwing mud at neighbor does not solve own problems, says Chinese FM on SK leader's remarks on China Global Times 28 Feb 2025 -- When asked to comment on media reports that said South Korean leader once again brought out China-related topics during the impeachment trial over martial law at the Constitutional Court, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said that at the outset of the emergency martial law situation late last year, the South Korea had already made similar remarks, and China had stated its solemn position.
- North Korea sending more troops to Russia, South confirms Radio Free Asia 26 Feb 2025 -- South Korea's main spy agency said North Korea had deployed more troops to Russia, with media reports estimating the number at more than 1,000.
- South Korean president's impeachment trial ends with denial of wrongdoing VOA 25 Feb 2025 -- South Korea's Constitutional Court on Tuesday heard the last of the oral arguments in President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial.
- Joint Statement on the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) Steering Committee Inaugural Meeting US Dept. of State 20 Feb 2025 -- The Governments of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America held the inaugural meeting of the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) Steering Committee in Washington, DC on February 19, 2025 and released the following statement.
- 3rd MLG to Support Multiple US/ROK Military Exercises USMC News 20 Feb 2025 -- Hundreds of U.S. and Republic of Korea Marines are set to launch a nearly two-month series of bilateral training exercises across the South Korean Peninsula from February to April 2025.
- South Korea and US hold first joint aerial exercise of 2nd Trump administration Radio Free Asia 20 Feb 2025 -- South Korea and the United States on Thursday conducted the first joint aerial drills of the current Trump administration, completing a "simulated precision strike," according the U.S. Air Force.
- South Korea's Yoon makes 2 court appearances VOA 20 Feb 2025 -- Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in two Seoul courtrooms Thursday, first to hear criminal insurrection charges and then to face a Constitutional Court impeachment trial, both in connection with his short-lived, Dec. 3 imposition of martial law.
- Chinese influence in South Korea a focus in Yoon impeachment hearings, analysts say VOA 18 Feb 2025 -- South Korea's Constitutional Court is approaching the final phase of proceedings before it decides in March whether to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his brief martial law bid in December.
- China lodges serious representations over US-Japan-South Korea's Taiwan-related claims at Munich meeting: FM Global Times 17 Feb 2025 -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday that China has always firmly opposed certain countries forming small cliques, interfering in China's internal affairs, attacking and smearing China, and inciting confrontation and division. "We have lodged serious representations with the relevant countries," Guo said.
- U.S., Japan, S. Korea highlight Taiwan Strait peace at Munich meeting CNA 16 Feb 2025 -- The top diplomats from the United States, Japan and South Korea on Saturday reaffirmed their support for peace in the Taiwan Strait, following a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
- US, Japan, S Korea renew calls for 'complete denuclearisation' of North Korea Press TV 16 Feb 2025 -- The United States, South Korea and Japan have once again called for "complete denuclearisation" of North Korea on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
- Joint Statement on the Trilateral United States - Japan - Republic of Korea Meeting in Munich US Dept. of State 15 Feb 2025
- Secretary Rubio's Meeting with ROK Foreign Minister Cho US Dept. of State 15 Feb 2025
- KCNA Commentary Sneers at Puppet ROK and Its Master KCNA 14 Feb 2025 -- The confrontation hysteria against the DPRK is getting evermore pronounced in the puppet ROK amid the worsening political chaos.
- EXPLAINED: North Korea is dismantling a family reunion facility. What's next? Radio Free Asia 14 Feb 2025 -- North Korea began demolishing a building designed to host the reunions of separated families. The destruction is widely seen as a major setback for inter-Korean humanitarian efforts, particularly for elderly individuals who have long waited for a chance to see their loved ones before it is too late.
- North Korea must compensate for killing of South Korean official: Court Radio Free Asia 13 Feb 2025 -- A South Korean court has ruled that North Korea must compensate the family of a South Korean official who North Korean forces shot dead in 2020, a killing that inflamed both cross-border tension and anger towards the South Korean government.
- North Korea demolishes facility for family reunions: Seoul Radio Free Asia 13 Feb 2025 -- North Korea has begun dismantling a facility where families separated by a decades-old war could meet on the border with South Korea, Seoul said on Thursday, the North's latest action to highlight what it says is the permanent division of the peninsula.
- PH, ROK reaffirm defense ties at 26th Joint Committee Meeting Philippine News Agency 11 Feb 2025 -- In line with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s directive of transforming the Filipino military into a world-class force, the Department of National Defense (DND) on Tuesday announced that the 26th Philippines-Republic of Korea (ROK) Joint Committee Meeting (JCM) on Logistics and Defense Industry Cooperation successfully concluded on Feb. 7.
- KCNA Commentary on ROK's Reckless Military Maneuvers KCNA 09 Feb 2025 -- The military provocations being committed in a frantic way in the ROK from the first month of the new year serve as an occasion of highlighting once again what enemy it is facing and how dangerous it may pay dearly for a moment's carelessness.
- China, ROK should consolidate ties amid rising uncertainties: Xi People's Daily 07 Feb 2025 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday said China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) should work together to strengthen their strategic cooperative partnership, amid mounting global and regional uncertainties.
- China has never demanded enterprises collect data illegally, says FM on S.Korean DeepSeek bans Global Times 06 Feb 2025 -- Chinese government attaches great importance to and legally protects data privacy and security. China has never demanded, nor will it require, enterprises or individuals to collect or store data in an illegal manner, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun emphasized on Thursday.
- 3rd MLG CG Completes JGSDF, ROK Visits Ahead of Bilateral Exercises USMC News 05 Feb 2025 -- Brigadier General Kevin Collins, the commanding general of 3rd Marine Logistics Group, completed today a multinational visit of U.S., Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and Republic of Korea self-defense and military commands ahead of scheduled bilateral exercises in Japan and Korea, Jan. 27 through Feb. 4, 2025.
- North Korea's new map erases South Korea, signaling policy shift Radio Free Asia 05 Feb 2025 -- North Korea left South Korean territory blank on a revised map, labeling it with a different term that reflects Pyongyang's policy change to view the South as a completely separate and hostile nation.
- KCNA Commentary on U.S. Arms Support to Puppet ROK KCNA 02 Feb 2025 -- The U.S., the world's biggest war merchant, is getting more frantic in its arms sale to its vassal states than ever before.
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