Author: GIKorea

Another example of the increasing cooperation between South Korea and Japan. Previously South Korea had flew Japanese citizens out of Israel as well:

This Kyodo News photo, filed Oct. 23, 2023, shows a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force aircraft parked at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo on Oct. 21, after returning from Israel with Japanese nationals, 18 South Koreans and one foreign family member in an evacuation from the war-torn region. (Yonhap)

A Japanese aircraft carrying a group of South Korean nationals, along with its own people, returned from Israel on Friday, Seoul’s foreign ministry said, the second such flight Japan has offered after South Korea brought Japanese citizens home on its plane last month. 

The Air Self-Defense Force aircraft carrying 15 South Koreans and one foreign national family member related to a Korean national landed at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, at 6:45 p.m., the foreign ministry said.

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This story continues to get weirder. If the transgender scammer Jeon Cheong-jo has not had a sex change operation than how did Nam Hyun-hee think he had a testicle transplant and got her pregnant?:

Nam Hyun-hee, left, and Jeon Cheong-jo [NEWS1]

The former fiancé of fencing Olympic medalist Nam Hyun-hee is accused of committing a romance scam while still in a relationship with Nam, according to reports by the police on Wednesday. 
  
According to the police on Monday, a man in his 30s reported the 27-year-old Jeon Cheong-jo for a romance scam.

The man told the police that the two made contact through a dating app several months ago.

He further said that Jeon had lured him with promises of marriage and subsequently requested financial assistance, with which he complied. 
  
The man said that the photo Jeon had used on her dating app was her old photo when she had long hair. 
  
However, during the time of the scam, Jeon, who was in a relationship with Nam, had short hair. 
  
In a previous interview, Jeon said while she had a breast resection surgery in July and is currently taking hormone shots, she was still biologically a woman as she has yet to get a gender confirmation surgery.

Joong Ang Ilbo

You can read more at the link, but this scammer must be one heck of a conversationalist to pull off all these scams.

It looks like the Kim regime plans to prop up their thug allies Hamas with more weapons:

National Intelligence Agency [JOONGANG ILBO]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered “comprehensive support for Palestine,” South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers at a closed-door audit on Wednesday. 
  
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) told members of the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee that Pyongyang “is planning how to fully exploit” the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, according to conservative People Power Party lawmaker Yoo Sang-bum, who attended the meeting. 
  
Yoo also said that the NIS told lawmakers it “detected orders from Kim to provide comprehensive support for Palestine.” (….)

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) report follows the discovery of North Korean weaponry in the possession of Hamas, which conducted an armed raid into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing around 1,400 people and abducting over 200 into the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli authorities.

Joong Ang Ilbo

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I guess we will see if President Yoon actually follows through on debt reduction because it easy to say, but as we see with U.S. politicians, it is actually harder to follow through on:

President Yoon Suk Yeol cited reducing the national debt and stabilizing prices as his top priorities in an address to the National Assembly on Tuesday.

“The approach our government is taking in managing our finances is to avoid passing on unaffordable debts to the country’s future generations,” the president said in a budget speech delivered before the members of the Assembly.

“A sound fiscal policy is crucial to stabilizing prices in the long run and protecting our economic security,” the president said, adding that the International Monetary Fund has appraised his administration’s take on balancing the budget as heading in the right direction.

Yoon stressed that a sound fiscal policy was “not just about cutting down on spending, but about using taxpayers’ money more efficiently and responsibly, with efforts to not let a single dime go wasted.” He said that the budget would primarily be spent on strengthening the country’s essential functions such as national defense, education, health care and social security for the vulnerable.

Korea Herald

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The Nam Hyun-hee romance scam just keeps getting weirder after Nam explained on a radio program that she believed she got pregnant by the transgender scammer, Jeon Cheong-jo by her having a testicle transplant from a family member:

Nam Hyun-hee speaks during her appearance on a CBS radio show Monday. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Fencing Olympian and medalist Nam Hyun-hee not only called her ex-fiancé the “devil” but also pleaded innocence regarding her former paramour’s alleged scams. 
  
She even claimed she believed the ex-fiancé had gotten her pregnant using testicles donated by a disabled sibling. 

“While it seemed impossible, I trusted Jeon Cheong-jo’s words that she got a testicle transplant,” the 42-year-old Nam said while appearing on a CBS radio show on Monday.   

Nam told the radio show host that her ex-fiancé said the Paradise Group had another son who was hidden from the public due to disabilities.   

Nam said Jeon told her that she received the testicles from the other son when he became an adult. 

Nam said she was suspicious at first that she’d been impregnated by a person who underwent gender reassignment surgery.   

“Obviously, as I was suspicious, I searched the internet,” Nam said. “But because there were limits [to what you could learn on the internet], I cautiously asked Jeon if it were possible, and she told me that she got a testicle transplant.”   

Nam also said all of the pregnancy tests that she took at home came out positive.  Nam previously said the test kits were pre-opened when she received them from Jeon.  

Joong Ang Ilbo

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