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Author: Clea Skopeliti
Published on: 04/06/2025 | 00:00:00

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South Korea's new president Lee Jae-myung promises to recommence talks with North Korea. Lee outlined key policy goals for his five-year term, from foreign and economic policy to healing the country’s political divide. In his inaugural address to the country's National Assembly, Lee pledged to deal with North Korean nuclear and other military threats with bolstered by the South Korea-US military alliance. US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth will not attend a NATO-led meeting of more than 50 defence ministers in Brussels on Wednesday. For the first time since the US created an international group to coordinate military aid to Ukraine three years ago. The US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker will take his place. NATO official tells Euronews that "3.5% gives us equivalence with the US" The 5% target is expected to be split into 3.5% of spending directly on defence. Some NATO countries pushing for things such as "military mobility" to be considered part of such spending. Spotlight on Ukraine Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will be one of the main issues at the NATO summit. "The resounding success of Sunday can’t take away that fact," he says. Sunday's success isn't enough to take away the fact.

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