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[News analysis] Trump is knocking on North Korea’s door. Will Kim Jong-un let him in?

The US president’s order to scale back joint South Korea-US military drills while touting his “very good relationship” with Kim Jong-un is inter…

Japanese anti-war activist says Tokyo must reckon with its history of aggression

Nahoko Hishiyama spoke to the Hankyoreh while in Korea to mark the International Memorial Day for the Japanese Military “Comfort Women”

[Column] No, tactical nukes aren’t practical for real-world use

The US-based distinction between strategic and tactical weapons isn’t really applicable to the Korean Peninsula, which is much smaller and cramm…

[Column] ‘The Odyssey’: Finally, a good chamber drama

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[Q&A] Why Korea’s military needs to revamp its officer training system

The Korea Military Academy has become a symbol of privilege and abused authority

Not even a war can stop Ukrainian kids from dreaming big with robotics

The Hankyoreh caught up with two young Ukrainians in Korea for the International Programming Robot Challenge

[Editorial] Will shift in US nuclear strategy reintroduce tactical nukes to Korea, Japan?

The Korean government should closely monitor developments on this issue within the US and properly prepare itself for any and all contingencies

Trump blasts progressive candidates as ‘lunatics’ and ‘communists’ ahead of midterms

The US president appeared to single out Francesca Hong, who is running to be governor of Wisconsin, over past comments

After proof of life, Aung San Suu Kyi’s son calls for detained leader to be freed

Kim Aris, the son of the detained Myanmar leader, called on international society to continue pressure for Suu Kyi’s release

Lee says military academy reform needed to prevent another coup

The president pushed a plan to merge the country’s military academies, noting that the Korean Military Academy had produced multiple figures who…

North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to western Russia, says Kyiv

The announcement comes after the Ukrainian president claimed last month that Moscow was seeking the deployment of an additional 30,000 North Kor…

Busan is becoming a stopover for human trafficking by fishing operations

An Indonesian sailor made headlines last month after escaping from a motel where he was confined, exposing a vast network of subcontracted explo…

Lee signs into law act stripping prosecutors of authority to conduct investigations

The president said that separating the powers of investigation and indictment, which had been concentrated in the prosecution service, was the f…

New US ambassador meets S. Korea’s top diplomat flanked by her politician husband

Michelle Steel submitted her credentials to the Foreign Ministry and paid a courtesy call on South Korea’s foreign minister

[Interview] France’s far right flourishes at intersection of racial antipathy, economic decline

Félicien Faury, a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, on the rise of the far right in France

[Interview] After 18 months in ICE detention, one man leaves behind a life in the US for a Korea he barely remembers

The estimated 2 million Korean immigrants in the US are not immune to the immigration crackdowns under the Trump administration

South Korea strongly protests Japanese defense white paper’s territorial claim to Dokdo

With the latest edition, Japan has continued making baseless claims of dominion over Dokdo for 22 straight years in its defense white papers

[Correspondent’s column] Korean investigations make even Trump’s political retribution look mild

Though Trump goes after his political foes without qualm, institutional balance between investigative authority and due process means that Ameri…