North Korea launches two ballistic missiles as Nimitz aircraft carrier arrives

   With the arrival of the US aircraft carrier Nimitz and its strike group to participate in exercises with South Korean warships, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles in an apparent protest against the expansion of US-South Korean exercises

Samsung plans to research the development and production of chips in Japan

 In an initiative that comes against the backdrop of the recent rapid improvement in bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea, Samsung Electronics of South Korea plans to establish a centralized R & D facility in Japan, and is also likely to build a Test line for semiconductor packaging.

Seoul seeks to settle grievances of brutal Japanese rule in World War II

Ties between Seoul and Tokyo have long been complicated by grievances related to Japan’s brutal rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945 when hundreds of thousands of Koreans were mobilized as forced laborers for Japanese companies, or sex slaves at Tokyo’s military-run brothels during World War II.

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