South Korean President #Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday #Seoul would keep strong ties with #Ukraine and a "smooth" relationship with #Russia, while ruling out direct weapon shipments to #Kyiv.
As a major arms exporter, Seoul has long been asked by #US and European allies to do more to help Kyiv.
But Yoon told reporters that it was his "firm stance" not to provide lethal weapons to countries in conflict.
Members of the group People in Solidarity with Palestinians hold signs during a rally outside the Israeli embassy in Seoul, South Korea [Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA-EFE]
The PH military alarmed by the "more than 4,600 Chinese nationals have reportedly enrolled in a private university and rented homes in various locations in Tuguegarao [Northern Philippines]."
Who needs spies when you gladly welcome them as 'students'?
These New York Road Runners have been coming to Boston for 15 years to volunteer and cheer on runners, just like they do in NYC. (L - R) M’Shell Patterson of Brooklyn, Tina Crockett of Harlem, Darnley Simon of Brooklyn, Joan Innocent of the Bronx, Randy Savitt of Queens, Jessica Hall of Brooklyn, Sharla Hanley, Queens.
These three women have come from #SouthKorea to run for the 1st time in the Boston Marathon. L-R is Lee Kyongye, Kang Hoe Kyung, and Kim Mung Je.
“#SouthKorea’s liberal opposition parties were expected to win a landslide victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary election, initial exit polls suggested, a result that if confirmed would make conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol a lame duck for his remaining three years in office.” https://apnews.com/article/c362a024e6eff3d4a410927be00b4d0c
'Google has decided to suspend all politics-related advertisements on its services in South Korea ahead of the general election next month, according to industry sources. According to the sources, Google recently posted a notice saying that it will not support political ads during South Korea’s election period.'
This is what I said a few weeks back, no, since last year, regarding the situation in #AsiaPacific#APAC.
The situation is not good at all. China is getting nearer in getting what it wants, for others to make a mistake, or a wrong move, so #China can tell the world, "they started it, we just defended ourselves".
This is also why I disagree with the think-tanks who proposed an India-Japan-Philippines cooperation, India won't be able to help, their India-China issue might accidentally get dragged and turn this into a nuclear world war.
My idea is better, a Japan-Korea-Philippines alliance/sphere (with a potential to turn into a confederation in the future). We can keep it an issue about China's 10-dash line ("South China Sea" + #Taiwan) and "East China Sea".
To quote a small part:
She called for a transformation in the discourse on migration, moving away from viewing migrants as a "group of foreign nationals addressing labor needs" to a narrative centered on "making migrants and their families part of the local community."
Korea's decline in population started a few years ago, and there are models showing it will continue to decline in the foreseeable future.
If you're paying attention in #AsiaPacific#APAC it gets more and more closer to sparking a war, possibly the beginning of #WorldWarIII . Of course, we don't want that to happen. But mainland #China and #NorthKorea are really working in tandem in pushing everyone to a corner.
Here is their game:
Push everyone anti-China and anti-NoKor to make the first move, or to make a mistake.
This way, they can blame them and point fingers.
China is already doing just that. Changing the narrative that it was the #Philippines who first made an aggressive move and they simply reacted similarly.
The worse is, no one is calling anyone to stop escalating the "actions"/"reactions" anymore. It seems that the world powers knew the only way to resolve this is to have another global war.
F&F Entertainment recently announced that #UNIS will debut this coming March 27th.
It will be F&F Entertainment's first #Kpop#idol group and first girl group. F&F Entertainment is a subsidiary of the clothing brand, F&F.
The UNIS line-up is half-foreign, half-Korean: 2x Japanese; 3x Koreans; 1x half-Filipino/Korean; 2x Filipinos. They were from the #UniverseTicket talent search / survival show which concluded back in January.
This will also be the first time, as far as I know, that we will see a medium-to-dark brown member in the K-pop industry, which the judges, like #KimSeJeong, super liked.
The members have a 2½ years contract with the possibility of extending it. Currently, they are more popular abroad (outside #SouthKorea). Thus, it remains to be seen how they will fare in #Korea's K-pop idol scene; as that market is the primary basis for K-pop success (not foreign countries).
F&F Entertainment is also planning debut tours(?) in the #Philippines and #Japan, where 4 of their members (2x respectively) hails from.
I think their success abroad is already a given, thus, F&F Entertainment may want to plan on targeting foreign markets as Plan B if they happen to not get highly ranked in the South Korean market. For one, their planned date is in-between the debut of new groups (March) and the comebacks of powerhouses (April).
The new XDQ lineage of SARS-CoV-2 is showing signs of spread. It was first detected in a sample collected in mid-November from Berlin. Within a week it appeared in South Korea, where it has been most successful (30%).
@eunews Reading this article and presuming #trump represents a lot of americans, then a lot of americans want to cut all ties with Europe because Trump said he will never help #Europe. So europe is on its own. If so, who will America team up with …. Russia, #putin ? What if Russia attacks #alaska, what if #kimjongun fires his longrange missiles to #southkorea or the #USA and Trump kills of #NATO ? There is another side to this story.
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
Unlike in Japan's neighbor #SouthKorea, where U.S. and South Korean troops can operate under a unified command of a four-star general, U.S. air, land and sea forces in Japan are currently subordinate to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
Washington will now consider appointing a four-star commander in Japan, laying the groundwork for a future unified Japanese-U.S. command. #TrilateralSummit
To wrap this #Brahmos minithread up, the sole reason why the #Philippines is even considering acquiring the Hal-Tejas is that the Brahmos-NG (New Generation) is coming soon. Among the improvements is a substantial decrease in weight which enables a light combat aircraft (#LCA) like the #Tejas to carry two of them.