1. Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Tuesday, after having a meeting with her South Korean counterpart, Cho Hyun-dong in Seoul, that North Korea would face a “swift and forceful” response for its nuclear test.

2. President Yoon Suk Yeol completed appointing four major ambassadors to the U.S, China, Russia, and Japan as of Tuesday. All four candidate ambassadors are known as career diplomats, who passed the state foreign service examination.

3. South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday stood at 6-thousand 1-hundred-72. Unvaccinated entrants to South Korea will be exempt from the mandated quarantine measures starting from tomorrow.