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American and South Korean flags hang from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Friday, April 21, 2023, in Washington. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee are scheduled to attend a state visit at the White House April 26. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

In Seoul, a voice for a new approach to the North Korea problem

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

A pair of dogs, Gomi, left, and Songgang, are unveiled at a park in Gwangju, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. The dogs gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un four years ago ended up being resettled at a zoo in South Korea following a dispute over who should finance the caring of the animals. (Chun Jung-in/Yonhap via AP)

Dogs gifted by North’s Kim resettle in South Korean zoo

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Members of North Korean human rights stage a rally to denounce South Korea's deportation of two North Korean fishermen in 2019, in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. South Korean prosecutors raided the country’s main spy agency Wednesday as part of investigations into two past North Korea-related incidents that drew criticism that the previous liberal government ignored basic principles of human rights to improve ties with Pyongyang. (Lim Hun-jung/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea spy agency searched amid squabbling over North Korea cases

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korea’s president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol attends a ceremony to disband a presidential election camp at the National Assembly Library in Seoul, South Korea Thursday, March 10, 2022. (Song Kyung-seok/Pool Photo via AP)

South Korea’s president-elect vows tighter U.S. alliance amid North Korea threats, China bullying

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korea's President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a news conference at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea Thursday, March 10, 2022. Yoon was elected South Korea’s president in a win expected to herald a drive to seek a stronger alliance with the United States and take a tougher line on North Korea. (Kim Hong-ji/Pool Photo via AP)

Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president-elect, wants tougher stance on North Korea

By Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

A South Korean elderly woman receives the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 1, 2021. South Korea started its coronavirus vaccination for senior citizens over 75 years old. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

State Dept. says 1 million U.S. vaccine doses heading to S. Korea

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrives for a ceremony to present the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Col. Ralph Puckett, with President Joe Biden, in the East Room of the White House, Friday, May 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden welcomes South Korean President Moon Jae-in for Friday talks at White House

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., walk through Statuary Hall in the Capitol, Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Moon talks with Congress about COVID-19, security of Korean peninsula

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden stops to talk to the media as he drives a Ford F-150 Lightning truck at Ford Dearborn Development Center, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Battery maker SK Innovation, Ford announce joint venture

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 10, 2021. South Korea's leader said Monday he'll use his upcoming summit with President Joe Biden to push to restart diplomacy with North Korea, saying that Biden favors a diplomatic, phased approach to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis. (Choi Jae-gu/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea’s Moon Jae-in: COVID-19 vaccine will reach all eligible persons by September

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Lee Jin-wook/Yonhap via AP)

Moon Jae-in, South Korea president, visit set for May 21, White House says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a meeting of his senior secretaries at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 12, 2021. Moon on Monday welcomed a decision by two South Korean electric vehicle battery makers to settle a long-running intellectual property dispute that had threatened thousands of American jobs and President Joe Biden's environmental policies. (Choe Jae-koo/Yonhap via AP)

Biden to host South Korea’s president in late May

Associated Press

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a meeting of his senior secretaries at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 12, 2021. Moon on Monday welcomed a decision by two South Korean electric vehicle battery makers to settle a long-running intellectual property dispute that had threatened thousands of American jobs and President Joe Biden's environmental policies. (Choe Jae-koo/Yonhap via AP)

Joe Biden to host South Korean President Moon Jae-in next month

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during an on-line New Year press conference with local and foreign journalists at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. (Jeon Heon-kyun/Pool Photo via AP)

Moon urges Biden to learn from Trump’s N. Korea diplomacy

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

People wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they walk at an outdoor shopping area in Beijing, Saturday, May 9, 2020. North Korean state media reported on Friday that leader Kim Jong Un sent a personal message to Chinese President Xi Jinping to praise what he described as China's success in getting its COVID-19 epidemic under control. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Asia Today: South Korean leader urges calm as cases rise

Associated Press

FILE- In this April 27, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a photo inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. Kim Jong Un will be keeping North Korea watchers busy on New Year’s Day, when he is expected to give his annual speech laying out the country’s top priorities for the year ahead. Kim has a lot to talk about, like the future of his nukes, what he might want to get out of a second summit with President Trump and what’s next in his peace offensive with the South. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP. File)

U.S. must encourage North and South Korea to implement Panmunjom Declaration

By Joseph R. DeTrani

Thae Yong-ho, right, former North Korean diplomat, who defected to South Korea in 2016 and a candidate of the main opposition United Future Party, reacts with a supporter after he was certain to secure victory in the parliamentary election in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 16, 2020. Thae on Thursday won a constituency seat in South Korea’s parliamentary elections, the first such achievement among tens of thousands of North Koreans who have fled their authoritarian, impoverished homeland. (Shin Jun-hee/Yonhap via AP)

Two North Korean defectors take seats in South Korean parliament

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Se-kyun takes off his face mask to hold a press conference on South Korea's recent preventive measures against the new coronavirus at the Seoul Correspondent Club in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 27, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

FDA approves South Korean kits for COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Cho Ju-bin, center, leader of South Korea's online sexual blackmail ring which is so called &quot;Nth room,&quot; walks out of a police station as he is transferred to prosecutors' office for further investigation in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday began reviewing whether to formally charge a man arrested last week on allegations he operated secretive chatrooms where he posted sexually abusive videos of blackmailed women in return for cryptocurrency payments. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP)

South Korea investigates chatroom sex abuse allegations

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korean soldiers wearing protective gears spray disinfectant as a precaution against the new coronavirus in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 5, 2020. The number of infections of the COVID-19 disease spread around the globe. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

N. Korea’s Kim expresses condolences over virus in S. Korea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press