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U.S. Senate seeks tighter Opcon oversight (KOR)

A Senate defense bill would require new certifications and risk reviews before any U.S. troop cuts in South Korea or transfer of wartime operational control to Seoul.

2026.6.19

U.S. Senate seeks tighter Opcon oversight

A Senate defense bill would require new certifications and risk reviews before any U.S. troop cuts in South Korea or transfer of wartime operational control to Seoul.

2026.6.18

President Lee tells U.S. lawmakers he hopes to see no repeat of ICE raid that detained Korean workers

President Lee Jae Myung told U.S. lawmakers in New York on Monday that he hopes to see no recurrence of the immigration raid that resulted in the detention of South Korean workers at a battery plant in Georgia last month.

2025.9.23

Parliamentary Speaker Woo Won-shik, right, shakes hands with former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy at the National Assembly in western Seoul on March 14. [NEWS1]

Korea's National Assembly speaker meets former U.S. House counterpart to discuss cooperation

National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik met with Kevin McCarthy, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, on Friday and discussed ways to strengthen cooperation between Korea and the United States.

2025.3.14

President Yoon Suk Yeol, fourth from right, poses for a photo with a bipartisan delegation of the U.S. Congressional Study Group on Korea, including Rep. Young Kim, fourth from left, and Rep. Ami Bera, third from right, at the Yongsan presidential office in central Seoul on Monday. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

Seoul calls on U.S. Congress to back its unification vision

Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho on Monday asked for U.S. lawmakers' bipartisan cooperation and support for South Korea's efforts to seek peaceful unification with North Korea.

2024.3.25

U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington on Thursday. [AP/YONHAP]

North Korea's nuclear arsenal 'on pace' to challenge homeland missile defense, says U.S. congressional report

The U.S. Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture assessed that Pyongyang is "probably preparing to test a nuclear device to facilitate tactical nuclear operations" and is seen to be maintaining a stockpile of a few dozen nuclear warheads.

2023.10.13

President Yoon Suk Yeol, center left, holds a meeting with a U.S. congressional delegation at the Yongsan presidential office in central Seoul on Wednesday. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

President Yoon will be first Korean leader to address U.S. Congress in a decade

President Yoon Suk Yeol will become the first Korean leader to make an address to a joint session of Congress in nearly a decade on April 27, which U.S. lawmakers see as an occasion to highlight the two countries' shared commitment to democracy.

2023.4.7

President Yoon Suk Yeol, center, poses for a photo with members of a U.S. congressional delegation at the presidential office in Seoul on Thursday. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

U.S. congressional leaders say Yoon's address will provide vision for future of alliance

U.S. congressional leaders have invited Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to address a joint session of Congress, noting it will provide an opportunity to share his vision for the future of U.S.-Korea alliance, an invitation letter to Yoon released...

2023.4.7

President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, greets Rep. Michael McCaul, who is leading a U.S. congressional delegation of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a trip Korea, at the Yongsan presidential office in central Seoul Wednesday. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

U.S. lawmakers officially ask Yoon to address Congress

President Yoon Suk Yeol was officially asked by a visiting U.S. congressional delegation Wednesday to give an address to the U.S. Congress during his state visit to the United States later this month, the presidential office said.

2023.4.5

Rep. Brad Sherman speaks at a podium during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday to announce the reintroduction of the ″Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act.″ [YONHAP]

U.S. lawmakers reintroduce bill on ending Korean War, improving relations between U.S., North

A group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday reintroduced a bill calling for U.S. efforts to declare a formal end to the Korean War and improve relations with North Korea.

2023.3.2

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