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Dagyum Ji
Dagyum Ji was a senior NK News correspondent based in Seoul. She previously worked for Reuters TV.
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Oliver Hotham
Oliver Hotham was an NK News contributor based in Seoul, South Korea. Follow him on Twitter.
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News Planned ROK-U.S. military drill could impact working-level talks, N. Korea warnsScaled-back "19-2 Dong Maeng" exercise set to begin in August ![]() A planned upcoming joint military drill by the U.S. and South Korea could impact North Korea's willingness to hold planned working-level negotiations over its nuclear program, Pyongyang's foreign ministry warned on Tuesday. In two statements carried by the country's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the North's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) slammed the upcoming 19-2 Dong Maeng exercise as a violation of last year's DPRK-U.S. agreement in Singapore. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |