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South Korea’s presidential national security council decided to suspend a 2018 inter-Korean agreement aimed at easing frontline animosities until mutual trust between the two Koreas is restored, according to the presidential office. The security council said on Monday the suspension would allow South Korea to resume military drills near the border with North Korea and take effective, immediate responses to provocations by Pyongyang. A proposal on the suspension will be introduced at the Cabinet Council on Tuesday for approval. The decision was made after North Korea flew hundreds of balloons t...
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Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even, reportedly, diapers. This week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons to dump all of that trash across rival South Korea – an old-fashioned, Cold War-style provocation of a sort the isolated dicatatorship has rarely used in recent years. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un confirmed Wednesday that North Korea sent the balloons and attached trash sacks, saying they were deployed to make good on her country's recent threat to "scatter mounds of wastepaper and filth" in South Korea in response to aerial le...
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Online sites offer a vast array of goods at fiercely competitive prices. Last year, these online marketplaces such as Mercado, eBay, Vinted and Depop were responsible for about 35% of digital shopping orders worldwide, according to Statista. Supermarkets and online food suppliers came in second at 15% followed by direct-to-consumer (DTC) sites such as Nike and Adidas with 14%. The online sites for John Lewis, Boohoo and Argos had a share of 13%, with social on-app purchasing such as within games, coming in at 5%. Delivery apps such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo also accounted for 5%. Social media...
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Ten countries and the European Union will be developing more artificial intelligence (AI) safety institutes to align research on machine learning standards and testing. The international network was agreed during the AI Safety Summit in Seoul, South Korea during which world leaders met virtually. It will bring together scientists from publicly-backed institutions, like the UK’s AI Safety Institute to share information about AI models' risks, capabilities and limitations. The group of institutions will also monitor “specific AI safety incidents” when they occur. AI Seoul Summit: Big Tech compan...
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Tech companies have agreed on a set of safety commitments on artificial intelligence (AI) as a second global safety summit led by South Korea and the UK gets underway. The voluntary commitments were agreed by 16 major tech companies, including OpenAI, Mistral, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and IBM. China's Zhipu.ai and the United Arab Emirates' Technology Innovation Institute also signed the agreement. They include identifying the possible risks of AI, setting thresholds at which those risks would be designated as too high, and being transparent about them, according to a stateme...
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A childcare facility recruiting new children. Photo provided by Eunjeong Lee. Korea's fertility rate dropped to 0.72 children per woman's lifetime in 2023, marking a historical low for both the country and the world. The plunge from six children per woman in 1960 to the current status is considered the most rapid fertility decline in human history. If the decline continues, South Korea’s population will be halved to 26.8 million by 2100, which may result in an irreversible decline in productivity and economic growth. For about two decades, the South Korean government has attempted to stimulate...
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South Korea's intelligence service is conducting a review into suspicions that North Korea has provided Russia with artillery shells and other weaponry manufactured in the 1970s, the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on May 12. The NIS' remarks come in response to recent South Korean media reports that allege 122 mm artillery shells manufactured in North Korea in the 1970s were used on Ukraine's eastern front. Both Ukrainian and U.S. officials have previously confirmed that Russia has been using North Korean-produced weaponry to attack Ukraine. "The NIS is analyzing the releva...
Kyiv Independent
South Korea's intelligence service is conducting a review into suspicions that North Korea has provided Russia with artillery shells and other weaponry manufactured in the 1970s, the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on May 12. The NIS' remarks come in response to recent South Korean media reports that allege 122 mm artillery shells manufactured in North Korea in the 1970s were used on Ukraine's eastern front. Both Ukrainian and U.S. officials have previously confirmed that Russia has been using North Korean-produced weaponry to attack Ukraine. "The NIS is analyzing the releva...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
South Korea's intelligence service is conducting a review into suspicions that North Korea has provided Russia with artillery shells and other weaponry manufactured in the 1970s, the country's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on May 12. The NIS' remarks come in response to recent South Korean media reports that allege 122 mm artillery shells manufactured in North Korea in the 1970s were used on Ukraine's eastern front. Both Ukrainian and U.S. officials have previously confirmed that Russia has been using North Korean-produced weaponry to attack Ukraine. "The NIS is analyzing the releva...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
European aerospace giant Airbus announced Tuesday that Korean Air has finalized an order for 33 of its long-range A350 jets. The order covers 27 A350-1000s and six A350-900s. Airbus said the A350 offers the longest range of any aircraft and will be able to operate any of Korean Air's current intercontinental routes with a 25% reduction in fuel consumption and carbon emissions compared to previous generation aircraft. The additional range of the A350 will also enable the carrier to evaluate new long haul destinations, the company noted. Jason Yoo, Chief Safety and Operating Officer and EVP at K...
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