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Podcast: Focus on Headline
Episode: Focus on Headline 07/21/2023
Description: 1. North Korea has heavily criticized the docking of the USS Kentucky in South Korea and the launch of the S. Korea-U.S. Nuclear Consultative Group as a blatant and direct nuclear threat. South Korea’s defense ministry on Friday has warned that a nuclear weapons assault by Pyongyang will result in the regime’s demise.
2. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s nominee to become the next unification minister, Kim Young-ho, appeared before the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee for his confirmation hearing on Friday.
3. Japan on Friday returned South Korea to its “white list...