national
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Last month, the government declared a national “security emergency,” authorizing the police and army to recruit and train additional personnel.
“They see national greatness entirely through the lens of dollars, and not the lens through which America has long been viewed—as a beacon of hope.”
Once the wave of revolution receded, irreconcilable ideological and national differences were exposed.
A South Korean court acquitted a former national security adviser and other senior officials on Friday after they were accused of trying to cover up a murder to appease Pyongyang.
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South Korea remains officially at war with its nuclear-armed neighbour, and a decades-old national security ban on Pyongyang's propaganda remains in place.
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