Seoul ups the ante in Ukraine feud over North Korean POW transfer disclosure
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Friday threatened unspecified measures against Ukraine unless Kyiv acknowledged what Seoul says was a confidentiality agreement covering the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers and apologised. “If the refusal to acknowledge the facts and issue a public apology continues, we will take additional measures,” Lee said in a social media post. Lee also…
A North Korean coach publicly reprimanded weightlifters who had won medals at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, despite their gold successes. The top-ranking delegation official scolded about 10 athletes from the national team inside the Nagoya Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Center in Japan. The incident, seen by experts as an ideological review, involved the athletes submitting written self-criticisms.
Some, including gold medalists Ri Song-gum, Song Kuk-hyang, and Kang Hyon-gyong, wept openly while standing at attention as a female official named Kim Chun-hui delivered the stern rebuke around 12:20 p.m. on Monday.
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