Today is a good day of how colorful the news in South Korea can be: A grandson of a military dictator going on Instagram to expose his family & police raiding the defense ministry over claims a fortune teller influenced the relocation of the presidential residence.
N. Korea’s missile launch A ground-to-ground ballistic missile is launched toward the East Sea from the western North Korean county of Jangyon, South Hwanghae Province, in a drill on March 14, 2023, in this photo captured from the North’s Central TV the following day. The drill was made amid South Korea and the United States’ 11-day computer-simulated Freedom Shield joint exercise against North Korean provocations. (Yonhap)
Nothing new here, but probably good to occasionally repeat this so the Kim regime continues to understand that using new nukes will immediately end their rule over North Korea:
Any use of nuclear weapons by North Korea will be the end of the reclusive regime in Pyongyang, a U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson said Tuesday, amid concerns of a nuclear test by the reclusive country.
Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder also reiterated that the U.S. remains committed to deterring aggression.
“I think we have been very clear that were North Korea to employ a nuclear weapon, it would be the end of the North Korean regime,” the department press secretary told a daily press briefing.
This is just another sign that Tokyo is preparing for future Chinese aggression in the region:
People take shelter during a missile evacuation drill in Naha, Okinawa, Jan. 21, 2023. (Office of the Cabinet Secretary)
Japan plans to guard against a potential conflict with China by building bomb shelters across the Nansei Islands, a move that security experts say is practical and not necessarily a signal of coming war.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in recent months has doubled down on security policies released in December that call for “securing various types of evacuation facilities” should a hot war with China spill over from Taiwan.
Some citizens may view the move as increasing the risk of war, but building shelters is a necessary measure that could save lives, experts said.
I agree with South Korea’s move to increase chip production, but putting these plants within North Korean artillery range around Seoul is not a good idea. These plants are so important they should be built further south out of artillery range:
President Yoon Suk Yeol (C) speaks during the 14th emergency economic and public livelihood meeting at the former presidential compound of Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on March 15, 2023. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
South Korea will create the world’s largest semiconductor cluster in the Seoul metropolitan area by attracting 300 trillion won (US$229.81 billion) in investments as part of efforts to secure a competitive edge in the sector, the industry ministry said Wednesday.
It is part of the government’s comprehensive plan to promote six key industries — chips, displays, secondary batteries, bio, future vehicles and robots — which also called for the corporate investment of 550 trillion won by 2026, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
S. Korea-U.S. Freedom Shield drill South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup (4th from R) poses for a photo with USFK Commander Gen. Paul LaCamera (4th from L), and South Korean and U.S. soldiers during a visit to the theater air, naval and ground operations command post of the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command on March 15, 2023, the third day of the two country’s 11-day computer-simulated Freedom Shield joint exercise against North Korean provocations, in this photo provided by the defense ministry. (Yonhap)
Removing this mandate I think will eventually lead to more people in South Korea taking off their masks in public compared to current levels:
South Korea will end the mask mandate for public transportation next week, the government announced Wednesday, lifting one of the last-remaining COVID-19 restrictions amid a stable virus situation.
Vice Interior Minister Han Chang-seob said during a government COVID-19 response meeting that the lifting will go into effect Monday. The decision came as South Korea’s daily virus tally continues its downward trend, reaching 11,401 cases Tuesday.
South Korean police raided the Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a claim made by a former spokesperson for the ministry that a fortuneteller had been involved in the relocation of the presidential residence to Yongsan in central Seoul.
Investigators from the cyber bureau of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency were sent to confiscate evidence, including vehicle entry records, to determine if the fortuneteller had visited the ministry’s premises in Yongsan in advance.
Former Defense Ministry spokesman Boo Seung-chan has claimed in a book that the fortuneteller was involved when Yoon was considering where to relocate the presidential residence and office in March last year.
You can read more at the link, but it should be easy to determine if this so called fortune teller was allowed to run around the Defense Ministry building with the video and vehicle records they have there. If they don’t find any evidence this will help with the libel complaints that the Yoon administration has lodged.
Could you imagine the amount of lawsuits if the U.S. had the same libel laws as South Korea? Cable news as we know it would have to end which would probably be a good thing.
