#SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Yonhap) – #SouthKorea on Wednesday imposed independent sanctions on 11 vessels and five individuals and entities engaged in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil and other products to #NorthKorea, tightening the sanctions against the North’s maritime activities.

It also marks the first designation of sanctions on ships by the South Korean government in nearly eight years, the ministry said.

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240117000800315?input=feed_microsoft

"We should completely remove the eyesore ‘Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification’ … and take other measures so as to completely eliminate such concepts as ‘reunification,’ ‘reconciliation’ and ‘fellow countrymen’ from the national history of our Republic,” Kim is quoted as saying by KCNA.

#NorthKorea’s Kim vows to dismantle father’s #UnificationArch as he declares #SouthKorea ‘principal enemy’ | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/asia/north-korea-kim-unification-arch-intl-hnk/index.html

@mike805@noc.social Agree on the plug in hybrid EV variant. Specially where I live where public charging stations are currently non-existent. Though that may change over time as the modernization drive to shift from traditional passenger jeepneys to electric ones takes hold.

The transition will take quite a bit of time though. Those electric jeepneys aren’t cheap.