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Andrew Salmon

asalmon@washingtontimes.com

Seoul, South Korea-based Andrew Salmon, Asia Editor at The Washington Times. brings two decades of journalistic experience to the position. Before joining The Washington Times, he was Northeast Asia Editor of Hong Kong-based Asia Times. Andrew’s reporting previously appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Forbes, The International Herald Tribune, The South China Morning Post, The Times and The Washington Times. He has made television appearances on Arirang TV, CNN and France24. He can be reached at asalmon@washingtontimes.com.

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A North Korean flag flutters in the wind near the border villages of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea on Oct. 4, 2022. South Korea said Friday, July 19, 2024, it has restarted anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the border in response to North Korea’s resumption of trash-carrying balloon launches. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Seoul urges U.S. to refocus on North Korean denuclearization

The looming nuclear threat posed by North Korea isn't being talked about much by either Republicans or Democrats ahead of Nov. 5, but Seoul's Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho said he hopes that, no matter who wins, the issue gets more attention after the U.S. elections.

August 22, 2024
People walk past a police station in Urumqi, the capital of China's far west Xinjiang region, on April 21, 2021. A prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people's folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison, according to a U.S.-based foundation that works on human rights cases in China. Rahile Dawut was convicted on charges of endangering state security in December 2018 in a secret trial, the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation said in a statement Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)

China executes ‘slow-motion genocide’ in Tibet, Xinjiang, conference told

There are bloody conflicts around the globe, in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, producing in some loose talk of genocide. But for attendees at the International Freedom of Religion Summit Asia, held in Tokyo earlier this month, the discussion was precise and the target clear in what many said was a quiet, de facto policy genocide being carried out by China's Communist regime in both Tibet and Xinjiang.

July 25, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin awards Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Modi’s chummy visit with Putin poses conundrum for U.S., allies

While the leaders of Japan, South Korea and New Zealand huddled in Washington with their North American and European counterparts for the NATO Summit, Indian President Narendra Modi wrapped up two days with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

July 10, 2024