South Korea’s presidential office said it sees little chance of contact between the United States and North Korea around next week’s APEC summit in Shenzhen, as hopes fade for a meeting this year.
Seoul has convened a high-level task force to turn apologies into action for around 168,000 Koreans adopted overseas, from restoring nationality to helping them find their birth families.
South Korea’s cabinet has approved widening the Cheonghae naval unit’s operating area from the Gulf of Aden toward the waters south of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz.