Hyundai, Kia’s Europe sales down 7.5 pc in October
Combined vehicle sales of Hyundai Motor and Kia, South Korea's leading automakers, in Europe fell 7.5 per cent in October from a year ago, industry data showed on Thursday.
Combined vehicle sales of Hyundai Motor and Kia, South Korea's leading automakers, in Europe fell 7.5 per cent in October from a year ago, industry data showed on Thursday.
South Korea has one of the best fifth-generation (5G) communications network infrastructures among the member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed on Wednesday.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba underscored their shared commitment to bilateral cooperation during their talks on the margins of a multilateral summit in Peru, amid growing concerns over North Korean military threats.
Yoon will travel to Peru from Thursday to Friday for the APEC summit and head to Brazil on Sunday for the G20 summit slated for the next two days, Yonhap news agency reported.
The largest South Korean doctors' advocacy group voted on Sunday to impeach its chief, holding him responsible for poor responses to a prolonged walkout by junior doctors and various other controversies.
Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong is on a visit there to attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) foreign ministers.
Beyond the worsening US-China rivalry, there are internal pressures within South Koreas restive society, which is becoming increasingly suspicious of Chinas intent and trustworthiness. Majority of South Koreans now view China as the biggest threat to a hypothetically-unified Korea, and not Japan and a 2020 Pew Poll found 83 per cent of South Koreans distrusting Chinese President Xi Jinping to do the 'right thing in world affairs'
"Kim is continuing to prioritize efforts to build an increasingly capable missile force designed to evade US and regional missile defenses," said the report.
Events in eastern Europe of the past few days, when the West appeared to lead on Ukraine only to leave it at Russia’s mercy may harden the resolve of the Korean people. When the Americans withdrew from the peninsula in 1971, South Korea had announced plans to develop nuclear weapons. But under American pressure, it abandoned the programme, although there have been sporadic reports of the country’s scientists working to enrich plutonium to weapons-grade.
North Korea fired one suspected ballistic missile from the Jagang Province area on Sunday and the missile landed outside of Japan's exclusive economic zone.
