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South Korea's pop girl group KARA's Goo Ha-ra attends a press conference in Singapore, Tuesday July 10, 2012. KARA is scheduled to perform their one-night concert here as a campaign to launch their own line of perfume fragrance "K5J" or "K 5 Jewel". (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Goo Hara, K-Pop star, found dead at home

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Kim You-geun, deputy director of South Korea's presidential national security office, speaks at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. South Korea says it has decided to continue a 2016 military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan it previously decided to terminate amid ongoing disputes over their wartime history and trade. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

In reversal, Seoul to keep Japan military intelligence pact

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

In this April 27, 2018, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in cross the military demarcation line to the South side at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone. North Korea on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, said Kim turned down an invitation by Moon to participate in a regional summit next week in the southern city of Busan and has blamed the South for a deep freeze in inter-Korean relations. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

N. Korea says Kim turned down Moon invitation to visit South

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2019, file photo, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, walks by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upon his arrival for a welcome and family photo session at the G-20 leaders summit in Osaka, western Japan. South Korea said Thursday, Aug. 22, it is canceling an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid a bitter trade dispute, a surprise announcement that is likely to set back U.S. efforts to bolster mutual security cooperation with two of its most important allies in the Asian region. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

South Korea-Japan tension undercuts U.S., emboldens China and North Korea

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2019, file photo, protesters stage a rally to oppose a visit by U.S. Secretary for Defense Mark Esper in front of the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea. Squeezed between a growing North Korean threat and a shaky alliance with the United States, South Korea must decide this week whether its national pride and deep frustrations with Japan are worth killing a major symbol of their security cooperation with Washington. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Seoul faces major decision over military pact with Tokyo

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

James DeHart, U.S. Department of State's a senior advisor for security negotiations and agreements bureau of political-military affairs, speaks after a meeting with South Korean counterpart on the Special Measures Agreement (SMA) at the public affairs section of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)

US, South Korea cut short meeting over sharing defense costs

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Korea's chief negotiator Jeong Eun Bo answers a reporter's question after a meeting with U.S. counterpart James DeHart at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. U.S. and South Korean officials have publicly acknowledged the allies remain far apart in negotiations for increasing South Korea's contributions to the costs for maintaining the American military presence on its soil. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

U.S. walks out of defense spending talks with South Korea

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, shakes hands with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, left, before a meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. (Lee Jin-wook/Yonhap via AP)

Defense chief Mark Esper: ‘Wealthy’ South Korea should pay more for U.S. protection

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2019, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper talks to the media with Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Khalid Al Attiyah at the Pentagon in Washington. Barely four months into his tenure, Esper is making his second trek across the Pacific. And yet it is the Middle East – most recently a near-war with Iran and an actual war in Syria – that in Washington commands more attention and demands more American troops. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Esper: US could alter military drills to boost NKorea talks

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Blue House, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, center right, talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center left, ahead of the ASEAN+3 Summit in Nonthaburi, Thailand, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. (South Korea Presidential Blue House via AP)

US official says Moon-Abe meeting was ‘encouraging sign’

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

People watch a TV showing a file image of an unspecified North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. South Korea's military said North Korea on Thursday fired two projectiles toward its eastern sea, an apparent resumption of weapons tests aimed at ramping up pressure on Washington over a stalemate in nuclear negotiations. The sign reads: &quot;North Korea fired two projectiles.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea fires 2 missiles in the sea amid stalled talks

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

South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prior to their meeting at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Abe held talks with Lee in a first high-level meeting amid tension between the two neighbors over trade and wartime history. Lee, known as Japan expert, attended Emperor Naruhito’s enthronement ceremony Tuesday and was expected to propose improving ties. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Abe, S. Korean premier agree to keep talking to mend ties

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2011, file photo, South Korean invested villas line the coastline of the Mount Kumgang resort, also known as Diamond Mountain, in North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the destruction of South Korean-made hotels and other tourist facilities at the North's Diamond Mountain resort, apparently because Seoul won't defy international sanctions and resume South Korean tours at the site, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Kim orders South’s buildings at resort in North be destroyed

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, photo, a college student holds a banner in front of the U.S. ambassador's residence in Seoul, South Korea. South Korean police said Saturday, Oct. 19, they beefed up security at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Seoul after a group of anti-American students used ladders to break into the compound. The sign reads &quot; &quot;Harris, leave this land!&quot; (Chun Jin-hwan/Newsis via AP)

4 South Koreans arrested over break-in at US envoy compound

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, photo, a detained college student shouts a slogan into a police bus in front of the U.S. ambassador's residence in Seoul, South Korea. South Korean police said Saturday, Oct. 19, they beefed up security at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Seoul after a group of anti-American students used ladders to break into the compound. The sign reads &quot;Stop&quot; (Chun Jin-hwan/Newsis via AP)

Seoul police up security after rally at US envoy residence

By BY KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 1999, file photo, Japanese war veterans in Japan's Imperial Navy uniform stand at attention with the navy flag as they pay their respects to the war dead at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the end of World War II. Japan has announced it is not inviting South Korea to an upcoming multinational naval review it is hosting next month because their ties are badly strained over history, trade and defense. (AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto, File)

Japan not inviting South Korea to naval review amid dispute

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan accepts talks with South Korea on WTO arbitration

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

CORRECTS DATE PHOTO TAKEN - Lee Ho-hyeon, a director general for International Trade Policy at the Trade, Industry and Energy Ministry, speaks at the government complex in Sejong, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. South Korea has gone through with plans to drop Japan from a list of countries receiving fast-track approvals in trade in a tit-for-tat reaction to a similar move by Tokyo to downgrade Seoul's trade status amid a tense diplomatic dispute. (Jin Sung-chul/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea downgrades Japan trade status as dispute deepens

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

People watch a TV showing a file image of a North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. North Korea launched at least two unidentified projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its dealings with Washington may end without new U.S. proposals. The sign reads "North Korea launched at least two unidentified projectiles." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea fires 2 projectiles after offering talks with U.S.

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean protesters with images of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shout slogans during a rally to mark the South Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday offered an olive branch to Japan to end a tense trade dispute, saying Seoul will "gladly join hands" if Tokyo to accepts calls to resolve it through dialogue. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

U.S.-Japan-South Korea alliance crumbles, threatens Trump’s North Korea nuclear diplomacy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times