U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has visited the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. On Monday, he began a two-day visit to South Korea for security talks. Hegseth and South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back received a briefing at Observation Post Ouellette, a site visited by past U.S. presidents.
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ChatGPT won't be the first to try to profit from itNature walks are good for you, but can a city stroll be just as good?FDA: fabricantes retiran un fármaco para la presión arterial contaminado con químico cancerígenoNave china Shenzhou-21 se acopla con estación espacial y establece récord de velocidadIn this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, shakes hands with South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back at the southern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, shakes hands with South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back upon arrival at the Camp Bonifas near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, shakes hands with South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back at the southern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, shakes hands with South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back at the southern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, shakes hands with South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back upon arrival at the Camp Bonifas near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, shakes hands with South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back upon arrival at the Camp Bonifas near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. Hegseth and South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back received a briefing from military officials at Observation Post Ouellette, a site near the military demarcation line that past U.S. presidents, including Donald Trump during his first term in 2019, had visited to peer across the border into North Korea and meet with American soldiers.border village, where an armistice was signed to pause the 1950-53 Korean War. Ahn’s ministry said the visit “reaffirmed the firm combined defense posture and close coordination” between the allies.which has ignored Washington and Seoul’s calls for dialogue in recent years while accelerating the expansion of its nuclear weapons and missile programs. South Korea’s military also said Monday that the country’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Jin Yong-sung and his U.S. counterpart, Gen. Dan Caine, oversaw a combined formation flight aboard South Korean and U.S. F-16 fighter jets above a major U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek. The flight, conducted for the first time, was intended to demonstrate the allies’ “ironclad combined defense posture” and the “unwavering” strength of the alliance, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said.Hegseth and Ahn, who previously met on Saturday at a defense ministers’ meeting in Malaysia, will attend the allies’ annual defense talks in Seoul on Tuesday.including South Korea’s commitment to increase defense spending and the implementation of a previous agreement to transfer wartime operational control of allied forces to a binational command led by a South Korean general with a U.S. deputy. There are also concerns in Seoul that the Trump administration may demand much higher South Korean payments for the U.S. military presence in the country or possibly downsize America’s military footprint to focus more on China. Hegseth’s visit comes days after Trump traveled to South Korea for meetings with world leaders, including South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of this year’s During his meeting with Trump on Wednesday last week, Lee reaffirmed South Korea’s commitment to increase defense spending to reduce the financial burden on America and also called for U.S. support in South Korean efforts to acquire nuclear-powered submarines. Trump later said on social media that the United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, and that the vessel will be built in the Philly Shipyard, which was bought last year by South Korea’s Hanwha Group. The leaders also advancedaddressing details of $350 billion in U.S. investments South Korea committed to in an effort to avoid the Trump administration’s highest tariffs.Kim has been covering the Koreas for the AP since 2014. He has published widely read stories on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, the dark side of South Korea’s economic rise and international adoptions of Korean children.
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