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Joe Biden has made another verbal gaffe during a recent campaign reception in Portola Valley, California, ANI reported. Biden, made an error in referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the 'President of South Korea', as per the New York Post. Biden's slip-up occurred while criticising his 2024 opponent and Republican candidate, and former President Donald Trump, for his rapport with the North Korean leader.

North Korea may be a little irked with President Biden as he, during the Presidential campaign reception in California, wrongly identified Kim Jong Un's nationality and country of leadership, according to an NY Post report.

NEW DELHI : India and South Korea are discussing joint development projects in neighbouring countries such as Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, according to persons aware of the matter. While talks are still in early stages, the development is significant as it reflects a renewed focus on bilateral relations between India and South Korea, with Seoul seen expanding its strategic interests beyond East Asia. Mint had earlier reported that South Korean president Yoon Suk-Yeol is eyeing a visit to India to push key projects and discuss strategic technologies, the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative and China-related matters.

South Korea said on Wednesday it would suspend parts of a 2018 military agreement with North Korea designed to curb the risk of inadvertent clashes along their shared border, in response to Pyongyang's claim to have successfully launched a spy satellite. Among the concrete steps stemming from the move, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said South Korea would immediately resume reconnaissance of the North's forces in border areas. Such surveillance had been curtailed under the pact, South Korean officials said. WHAT HAPPENED IN 2018? The so-called Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA) signed between the two Koreas in 2018 was the most substantive deal to result from months of historic meetings between leader Kim Jong Un and then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

ALSO READ: North Korea's Kim Jong Un orders steps to boost ties with Russia amid US, Seoul warning of weapons deal “The North Korean regime’s obsession with the development of nuclear weapons aggravates the North Korean people’s suffering," Yoon said. “The North Korean regime must realize that nuclear weapons will never be able to guarantee its security." To mark the anniversary, South Korea held its first military parade in a decade in Seoul that featured thousands of troops and its latest military hardware such as domestically made long-range surface-to-air missiles.

South Korea goes to the polls on March 9 to elect its next President – and crypto is likely to play a major role in determining the outcome.

As South Korea’s presidential elections draw to a close in March, crypto affairs are turning into a political battleground with both candidates set to showcase a number of crypto-related policies.

Crypto is set to become a key political battleground in South Korea, where both of the leading candidates in March’s presidential elections are set to showcase a number of crypto-related policies. And although politicians’ manifestos promises are not always adhered to the letter in any part of the world, it appears that a changing of the guard is very likely in terms of crypto in South Korea.

The head of the ruling Democratic Party in South Korea has promised to make a dramatic U-turn on crypto policy, claiming that “the time has come” for the government to stop regulating crypto and start “fostering” the industry.