Yoon Suk Yeol

On today's broadcast, North Korea rejects dialogue with the U.S. as it continues to deny involvement in the massive Binance cryptocurrency heist, but the U.S. State Department rebuts the denials.

An appeals court opposed former President Yoon Sung-yeol's 18-month suspended prison term for violating the election law in 2022.

And KBS verifies the username behind the 168-person passenger list for South Korea's presidential aircraft during President Lee Jae-myung's overseas trip in June, which was uploaded to a commercial website for five months.

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It said it was closely monitoring the situation based on a firm combined defense posture with the United States and maintaining the capability and posture to respond in an overwhelming manner against any provocations.

If the projectiles are confirmed to be ballistic missiles, the firing would mark the North's first missile launch in four days.

An appeals court has upheld a lower court's 18-month prison term for former President Yoon Sang-yeol, suspended for three years, for violating the election law.

If finalized, the verdict could cost the main opposition party nearly 30 million U.S. dollars in election expenses.

South Korea's state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. and the Turkey Nuclear Energy Company signed an MOU on cooperation on the project last year, and they have since launched a preliminary feasibility study.

In domestic politics, the ruling Democratic Party has endorsed a bill mandating the appointment of a new special counsel to look into allegations that President Lee Jae-myung was indicted on multiple charges based on fabricated evidence during the Yoon Seok-yeol administration.

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The DP made the decision at a general meeting of party lawmakers on Tuesday afternoon.

How could a city as modern as Seoul let so many young people die in an alley? The answer lies in a paper trail of dismissed warnings and a cover-up that reaches the top.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declares a period of national mourning and demands a thorough investigation.

Behind closed doors, the government tells officials to call it an accident, not a disaster, and to call those who died the dead, not victims.

A 74-day police probe reaches a damning verdict.

This was Obama all the way.

He's the only president that ever stayed in Washington, D.C.

But let's listen to the guy's testimony to the Congress, which means nothing will happen.

I now recognize Mr. Mike Howell for five minutes for his opening statement.

It's the same thing we're going through in the United States.

They went from within, and that's what we're seeing.

South Korean special prosecutor Cho Yoon-suk on Thursday demanded the death penalty for the former president Yoon-suk Yeol, who touched off a national crisis by declaring martial law in December of 2024.

Yoon, 65, declared a state of martial law in South Korea on December 3rd, 2024.

Bolsonaro, who left Brazil this week despite a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports, says he did not flee the country.

South Korea Prosecutors in South Korea today asked an appeals court to sentence former President Yoon Suk-yeol to death, rather than the life sentence he received in February, for rebellion related to his brief declaration of martial law in December 2024.

El Salvador and Haiti El Salvador's foreign ministry said yesterday that the country will send more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to support anti-gang operations and rescue four Salvadoran aircraft technicians reported missing after a gang ambush near Port-au-Prince last week.

Haiti.

What Kim Yo-jong did visiting the border alongside the top military official Park Jong-chun in photos as well, photos, big part of the optics too, is like the North Korean version of Respond first, report later.

This actually is more familiar to our South Korean listeners as what Yoon Seok-yeol used to say before to the frontline soldiers.

But they're using it, they're spinning it into a North Korean kind and sort of lowering the bar to like what justifies a response from the North Korean soldiers.

Initially, it was something about a live fire against North Koreans.

Regarding South Korea, South Korea is in very much a transitional phase.

As you know, the previous president, Yoon Seok-yeol, was a U.S. Quisling.

He was a walking wish fulfillment list for Washington.

And at the top of the wish fulfillment list was war with China.

And we know that thousands of parents called their children who were in the barracks and said, there's no way you can participate in this.

So we know that through massive civil response.

This coup was stopped dead in its tracks, and Yoon Seok-yeol was impeached.

And he is now in prison for the rest of his life.

Still, we need, we need that kind of high-level engagement.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol wants it, um, and I think it's now more likely to happen than not.

Patrick, thanks very much.

Thanks to all of you.