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President Lee holds a ‘Unity Yukhoe’ dinner with Kim·Jeong·Song···Kim Min-seok: “I apologize for excessive expressions” Jeong Cheong-rae: “Comrades who crossed the line of fire”

On the 19th, President Lee Jae Myung invited newly elected Democratic Party of Korea leader Kim Min-seok and his 8·17 convention rivals, Reps. Jeong Cheong-rae and Song Young-gil, to the Blue House for dinner. Coming just two days after the convention ended, President Lee sent a message to heal conflicts that surfaced during the convention and called for unity within the party.That afternoon, at the main building of the Blue House, President Lee held a dinner roundtable with the party leader...

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Kim Yo Jong “The relationship between the two North Korea·U.S. leaders is excellent···The downsizing of the South Korea·U.S. exercise is not worth evaluating”

On the 19th, Kim Yo Jong, General Affairs Department chief of the Workers Party of Korea, said regarding the reduction of the South Korea·U.S. combined military exercise ‘Ulchi Freedom Shield’(Ulchi Freedom Shield·UFS) under the instruction of U.S. President Donald Trump that she “does not consider it worth evaluating and finds it of no interest at all.” She added, “The relationship between the two leaders of (North Korea·the United States) remains excellent.” There is an interpretation that, ...

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U.S. sanctions Japanese ICC president; Takaichi calls it "regrettable"

The U.S. government sanctioned senior officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating Israel's war crimes. With the ICC president, a Japanese national, included among the targets, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed regret.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement on the 18th (local time) that he regards the ICC as a "corrupt and severely politicized transnational court," adding, "We are designating Tomoko Akane, a Japanese national ...

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Despite surplus power, apartment blackouts had a different cause···diagnosis from a national research institute: “transformer”

According to an assessment by a national policy research institute, the spate of blackouts that struck apartment complexes in the Seoul metropolitan area earlier this month amid record heat waves and tropical nights stemmed not from nationwide power supply conditions but from aging, undersized transformers and similar equipment within the complexes. As heat waves intensify due to climate change, there are calls to prepare national-level measures for residential blackouts.A review report by...

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Thirteen minutes were enough to prove it… Lee Kang-in fires Atletico Madrid debut goal in La Liga opener

Wearing Atletico Madrid colors, Lee Kang-in left a strong impression by scoring a debut goal in the first match of the new season.On the 20th at Riyadh Air Metropolitano in Madrid, Spain, Lee came on as a second-half substitute in Atletico Madrid’s home opener of the 2026~2027 Spanish La Liga against Malaga and netted the decisive goal. Atletico Madrid combined the opening goal by Lee Kang-in with an additional strike by Alex Baena to defeat Malaga 2-0 and begin the new season on a positive ...

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Trump “Kim Jong-un has 57 nuclear weapons” discloses the figure for the first time···while saying “Will meet within the year,” avoids answering on the goal of talks

U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un within the year. While disclosing for the first time a specific number, stating that North Korea already has 57 nuclear weapons, President Trump avoided giving a concrete answer as to whether the objective of resuming talks is ‘denuclearization of North Korea’. As North Korea is expected to demand recognition as a nuclear-armed state as a condition for a summit, he appears to have left room to sustain the momen...

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Over the past 10 years, financial incidents at the four major banks totaled 550 billion won…‘Fraud’ accounts for half

In the past ten years, losses from financial incidents at the major domestic commercial banks totaled 550 billion won.On the 20th, according to data submitted by the Financial Supervisory Service to Rep. Park Seong-hoon of the National Assembly Political Affairs Committee, from 2017 through July this year there were a total of 281 financial incidents at the four major banks (KB Kookmin·Shinhan·Hana·Woori·NH NongHyup). The amount involved totaled 549.528 billion won.By year, the amounts wer...

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U.S. national debt surpasses 40 trillion dollars for the first time ever···doubles in nine years

The U.S. national debt has exceeded 40 trillion dollars for the first time on record.According to the U.S. Treasury on the 19th local time, the total U.S. national debt stood at 40.047 trillion dollars (about 55.645 quadrillion won) as of the previous day. Of that, debt held by the public was 32.266 trillion dollars, and intragovernmental holdings were 7.782 trillion dollars.This comes a little over four years after January 2022, when the U.S. national debt first surpassed 30 trillion doll...

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Netanyahu “Airstrike on Syrian air base is the result of Turkiye ignoring warnings”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the recent strike on a Syrian air base was the result of Turkiye ignoring warnings, adding that Israel would not allow a Turkish military buildup inside Syria.In a podcast interview on the 19th (local time), he said this regarding the strike carried out the previous day on an air base in Idlib, northern Syria, stating that Israel had conveyed a message but apparently it was not heard, so steps were taken to ensure the message would be und...

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Buoyed by a semiconductor boom, next year national tax revenue estimated at 580 trillion won···Income cap on Youth Future Savings likely to be scrapped

Helped by a semiconductor boom, next year national tax revenue is expected to exceed 580 trillion won. This is about 80 trillion won more than the ‘500 trillion won or more’ the government presented at the mid-July National Fiscal Strategy Meeting. The Future Response Fund to be created on the back of increased tax capacity is also expected to be expanded beyond the initially discussed level to exceed 100 trillion won. The government is reviewing including in the budget proposal to be annou...

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