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The tempestuous year 2023 is waning and the hopeful year 2024 is dawning. Looking back upon this past year, the best thing that happened was the announcement of the end of the COVID-19 health crisis after the pandemic had devastated the world for three years. The worst thing that happened was the terrible war between Israel and Hamas that broke out amidst the ongoing horrors of the war in Ukraine, making so many peop...

President Yoon orders ‘instant response’ to North Korean provocations after ICBM firing Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

It has been a challenging year for Korea’s foreign and security policy. The war in Ukraine continued to drag on. A new war broke out in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, and North Korea’s development of, and threats to use, nuclear weapons continued to aggravate. Each of these events was related to each other and posed serious challenges for Korea. The Korean government responded with bold and timely responses throughout the year.

Changes in the official “Defense Vision” documents show clearly how conceptions of the alliance have evolved from 2019 to 2023.

North Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile into sea off the east coast of the peninsula Monday morning, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The projectile was fired eastward from Pyongyang at around 8:24 a.m. after a short-range ballistic missile was launched into the sea east of North Korea less than 10 hours ago at around 10:38 p.m. the previous day. The firing follows the second meeting...