Jeongmin Kim is Executive Director at Korea Risk Group, based in Seoul. She covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.
Senior official meets Japanese family of kidnapping victims, while Seoul says human rights is key issue for unification
Defense ministry says live-fire exercises to mark 70th anniversary of alliance likely to be largest ever on peninsula
President pushes back against Beijing’s criticism of US-ROK summit, calling for China to enforce sanctions on DPRK
Expert says ROK president is misrepresenting allies’ posture on North Korean attack by overemphasizing nuclear response
Summit declaration emphasizes South Korea will uphold nuclear nonproliferation, amid talk of Seoul going nuclear
Seoul says L-SAM II will be country’s first glide-phase missile defense system, while also announcing new drone command
Unification ministry says it could sue DPRK over ‘illicit’ operation of inter-Korean industrial zone suspended in 2016
Seoul says domestically developed ROKS Ahn Mu is ‘core’ asset for Kill Chain system of preempting DPRK missile attacks
Official says DPRK wants to operate inter-Korean facilities without South Korea, warning this would breach UN sanctions
Expert calls it ‘mind-boggling’ authorities waited so long to investigate campaign that began as early as 2021
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