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1.President Yoon Suk Yeol unveiled a vision for unification with North Korea on Thursday during an address marking the 79th Liberation Day, pledging to expand outside information on North Korea and proposing an official dialogue channel that can "take up any issue."

2.Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said on Wednesday during a discussion hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, that some experts anticipate Kim Jong-un might attempt to conduct a nuclear test or launch an ICBM in October if it would benefit him in the event of Trump's return to power.

3.Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday both claimed they have the upper hand after fighting on Russian soil for the ninth consecutive day. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is advancing into Russia’s Kursk region, but Russia reported it has thwarted Ukraine's attempts.

1.According to data compiled by Statistics Korea on Wednesday, South Korea added more than 100-thousand jobs for the first time in three months in July. The number of employed people came to 28-point-86 million last month, up 172-thousand on-year. Jobs in the construction sector, however, fell by the most in 11 years.

2.The Korea Children's Hospital Association said Wednesday that the number of COVID-19 cases among children in South Korea has nearly tripled over the past two weeks.

3.The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired some 15 rockets toward northern Israel, as fears grow over the possibility of a wider regional conflict. The rockets reportedly struck open areas, causing no injuries.

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday reinstated the civil rights of former South Gyeongsang Governor Kim Kyung-soo under Liberation Day special pardons. The pardon was endorsed after it was recommended by a justice ministry panel last week and approved during a Cabinet meeting earlier in the day.

2.The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that the ongoing wave of COVID-19 is forecast to reach a peak around the end of August… and decided to expand the virus response team to enhance monitoring of the situation, analysis of infections and management of treatment and medical supplies.

3.Israel on Monday put its military on high alert and the Pentagon said it is sending a guided-missile submarine to the region and speeding up the arrival of a second aircraft carrier, amid heightened concerns about a possible Iranian and Hezbollah response to the killing of militant leaders in Tehran and Beirut.

1.The Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday that South Korea and the United States will begin the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise from August 19th to 29th to strengthen their joint defense readiness in the face of evolving North Korean military threats.

2.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday named Presidential Security Service chief Kim Yong-hyun as the new defense minister, while Defense Minister Shin Won-sik was named as new national security adviser. National security adviser Chang Ho-jin was named as special adviser for foreign affairs and security, a newly created post.

3.Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of starting a fire on the grounds of Europe's largest and now Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Sunday, with both sides reporting no sign of elevated radiation.

1.Multiple military sources said Friday that a North Korean defected to South Korea early on Thursday by crossing "neutral waters" between the two Koreas. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said relevant authorities are investigating the details, including how the defection took place.

2.According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Friday, the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in South Korea surged sixfold in four weeks amid a virus resurgence in summertime nationwide. Of the inpatients this month, 65-point-2 percent were those aged 65 and older.

3.Japan's Meteorological Agency on Thursday issued its first-ever alert warning about a possible megaquake around the Nankai Trough, following a magnitude 7.1 quake that struck earlier in the day off the coast of Kyushu.

1.Rival political parties on Thursday agreed to pass pending bills with little difference between the two sides during the August extraordinary session, including a revision bill stripping parents of the right to inherit their deceased child's assets if they had neglected parental duties, and a legislation for physician assistants.

2.The environment ministry said Thursday that it plans to unveil a set of comprehensive measures to prevent electric vehicle fires next month, following recent blazes involving electric cars.

3.The foreign ministry said Tuesday that South Korea had proposed Japan use the expression "forced" in the museum exhibits on the Sado mines linked to wartime forced labor of Koreans, prior to its UNESCO inscription, but Tokyo refused.

1.The Korea Development Institute said in a monthly economic assessment report that the South Korean economy is on a recovery track on strong exports, but subdued domestic demand has limited the overall economic improvement.

2.Policy chiefs from the ruling People Power Party and the main opposition Democratic Party on Wednesday agreed to swiftly handle key livelihood bills that have been pending amid a political strife under the 22nd National Assembly, during an inaugural meeting between the two parties.

3.U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz as her running mate for the presidential election. Walz is a former school teacher and military veteran who is viewed as a Democrat that can win over rural and working-class voters in crucial Midwestern states.

1.South Korean stocks rose more than 3 percent Tuesday, rebounding from the previous day's massive market sell-off, sparked by fears over a U.S. recession and the sluggish performance of big tech firms. The benchmark KOSPI gained 3.3 percent to close at 2,522-point-15 points.

2.Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on Tuesday unveiled policy measures for e-commerce vendors. Under the measures, the government will shorten a term of payment by e-commerce platforms to vendors and require e-commerce platforms to separately manage money set to be paid to vendors.

3.U.S. defense officials said Monday that at least five U.S. personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq, amid rising tensions following last week’s killing of senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah. According to Reuters, two Katyusha rockets were fired at the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq.

1.South Korea's benchmark KOSPI and the tech-heavy KOSDAQ both plunged over eight percent on Monday, prompting authorities to activate a circuit breaker to temporarily suspend trading. The Korea Exchange said it was halting trading on the KOSPI for 20 minutes starting at 2:14 p.m.

2.The opposition-controlled National Assembly on Monday passed the revision to the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act, better known as the "yellow envelope bill.” Lawmakers of the ruling People Power Party left the plenary session in protest.

3.According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency and fire authorities on Monday, five South Koreans died of heat-related deaths over the weekend. An intense heat wave has been gripping the nation since late last month, and is forecast to continue for at least another 10 days.

1.According to data from Statistics Korea on Friday, consumer prices, a key gauge of inflation, rose 2.6 percent on-year last month. Inflation in July was led by high prices of farm produce, while prices of petroleum products climbed 8.4 percent on-year in July.

2.Seoul's unification ministry said Friday that North Korea has not yet responded to South Korea's proposal made a day earlier to support North Korean flood victims with necessary supplies from a humanitarian and fraternal perspective through the Korean Red Cross.

3.The U.S. Democratic Party began the process of formally nominating Kamala Harris as its candidate for the United States presidential elections. Democratic National Convention delegates began officially selecting their nominee for president on Thursday morning in what’s known as a virtual roll call.