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April 9, 2024

Democratic Party of Korea Aimed for 31.3% Early Voting Rate, And Got It

2024-4-9, Tara O On April 7, 2024, the National Election Commission of South Korea announced that the early voting rate in the April 2024 general election was 31.28%, the highest...

Elections

April 5, 2024

South Korean Election Commission Early Vote Count Greater than Number of Observed Voters

2024-4-5, Tara O South Korea’s general election is on April 10, 2024. This election will select 300 lawmakers for South Korea’s National Assembly, which is the Korean equivalent of the...

Election Fraud/Elections

January 19, 2024

North Korea-Russia Missile and Satellite Technology Cooperation

2024-1-19, Tara O North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on January 16, 2024. The document detailed below indicates...

Missiles/North Korea/Russia

November 18, 2023

China’s 38 Fake News Sites Disseminating Pro-China, Anti-US, Anti-Japan Content in South Korea

2023-11-18, Tara O Chinese organizations posing as South Korean media-related PR companies have established 38 news sites disguised as South Korean domestic media outlets, which are spreading pro-China, anti-America, and...

China/Influence Operations/Psychological Operations

November 5, 2023

Major South Korean Political Parties Signed Agreements with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

2023-11-5, Tara O Two major political parties in South Korea have signed agreements with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Furthermore, a large number of lawmakers, 100, signed up to be...

China/Influence Operations/South Korea/Subversion

September 13, 2023

National Assembly Exhibits Bust of Mao Zedong, War Criminal of the Korean War…Titled “Savior”

2023-9-12, Chosun Ilbo [TRANSLATION] On September 11, 2023, it was discovered that a bust of Mao Zedong, a war criminal of the Korean War, was displayed in the National Assembly....

China/Communism/Influence Operations/Psychological Operations/Translation of Korean News

September 8, 2023

Gwangju, Chinese Communist Party, and the Zheng Lucheng Controversy in Korea

2023-9-8, Tara O The City of Gwangju (Kwangju) in South Jeolla Province in Korea has been paying tribute to a communist, Zheng Lucheng (Chinese pronunciation: Zheng Lucheng, 鄭律成, 정뤼청, Korean...

China/Communism/Influence Operations/Korean War

May 25, 2023

North Korea’s Spies Also in the Progressive Party and Teachers’ Union in South Korea

2023-5-24, Munhwa Ibo [TRANSLATION] Above: KTU members block the police and National Intelligence Service (NIS) search & seizure of KTU office in Chuncheon City, Gangwon Province, 2023-5-23, Yonhap News Mr....

Information Operations/Intelligence/North Korea/Spy/Subversion/Translation of Korean News

May 12, 2023

The Man North Korea “Feared the Most” Kim Kwan-jin Returns

2023-5-12, Tara O Kim Kwan-jin On May 10, 2023, President Yoon Suk-yeol appointed Kim Kwan-jin as the Vice Chairman of the National Defense Innovation Commission (국방혁신위원회) (the president is the...

Defense/National Security

May 11, 2023

North Korea Hacks South Korea’s National Election Commission

2023-5-11, Tara O South Korea’s National Election Commission (중앙선거관리위원회) has been cyber attacked 8 times in the past 2 years, 7 of which are believed to have been conducted by...

Election Fraud/Elections/Hacking/National Security

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