[%%IMAGE1%%]<p>  Despite the sweltering heat wave, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a processing plant for salted seafood (jeotgal) in South Hwanghae Province, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Aug. 8. The photos released by KCNA show Kim looking vibrant and enthusiastic, not to mention fashionable. Kim inspected the processing plant along with North Korea’s first lady Ri Sol-ju. (Yonhap News)</p>[%%IMAGE2%%][%%IMAGE3%%]

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[Photo] Kim Jong-un shows off his summer fashion

As Japan upgrades its alliance with the US, it’s more important than ever that South Korea seek balance in its diplomacy

[Column] Has Korea, too, crossed the Rubicon on China?

As was the case with the UK then, the US is no longer at its peak of power and it’s difficult for Washington to deal with its strategic rivals alone

[Correspondent’s column] In Japan’s alliance with US, echoes of its past alliances with UK

Does he expect to tell the people to change while he does not?

[Editorial] Does Yoon think the Korean public is wrong?

The recent augmentation of the US-Japan alliance into a global one, expanding Japan’s military role, makes Japan’s regressive historical awareness all the more concerning

[Editorial] As it bolsters its alliance with US, Japan must be accountable for past

An amendment to the Constitution that would allow for two four-year terms for the president rather than a single five-year one could be the key to Yoon leaving the stage to applause rather than boos

[Guest essay] Amending the Constitution is Yoon’s key to leaving office in public’s good graces

Ten years may have passed since the sinking, but safety conditions in South Korea have shown little in the way of improvement

[Editorial] 10 years on, lessons of Sewol tragedy must never be forgotten

The South Korean public has more than had its fill of Yoon and Han’s brand of politics

[Column] A death blow to Korea’s prosecutor politics

A bolstered US-Japan alliance is rendering the pacifist constitution of the latter a shell of its former self

[Correspondent’s column] The US and the end of Japanese pacifism

It was none other than the government and hospitals that afforded Korea’s residents and interns such immense power that they wield now in their absence from hospitals

[Guest essay] How Korea turned its trainee doctors into monsters

South Korea’s former ambassador to Russia weighs in on the recent deterioration of the two countries’ ties

[Guest essay] As someone who helped forge Seoul-Moscow ties, their status today troubles me

[Column] The clock is ticking for Korea’s first lady

After 2 months of delayed, denied medical care, Koreans worry worst may be yet to come

Hong Se-hwa, voice for tolerance whose memoir of exile touched a chord, dies at 76

US overtakes China as Korea’s top export market, prompting trade sanction jitters

All eyes on Xiaomi after it pulls off EV that Apple couldn’t

[News analysis] After elections, prosecutorial reform will likely make legislative agenda

Samsung barricades office as unionized workers strike for better conditions

More South Koreans, particularly the young, are leaving their religions

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