President Moon Jae-in is in Thailand for the first leg of his three-nation tour in Southeast Asia.
President Moon and Prime Minister Prayut have agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in many sectors.
One of the main sectors is technology related to the fourth industrial revolution.
South Korea and Thailand will prepare for the fourth industrial revolution era together, by boosting the two countries' cooperation in future technologies.
Moon says, that with Korea's policies for innovative growth, combined with Thailand's 4.0 policy and Eastern Economic Corridor will help accelerate the process.
And later in the day, President Moon will be attending a bilateral forum with the prime minister. He will deliver a keynote speech, where he's to elaborate on his vision for South Korea and Thailand's joint advancement in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.
North Korea's top diplomat is likely to skip the UN General Assembly in New York this September, casting doubt over the possible resumption of high-level talks between Pyeongyang and Washington.
Although there is still room for working-level talks between the two countries, Washington's plan to engage in talks about three months since the surprise Panmunjeom encounter has been put at risk.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi will visit Pyeongyang from Monday to Wednesday to sit down with his North Korean counterpart.
It's yet to be seen what message he will bring to the North, especially as Beijing firmly believes Pyeongyang and Washington should resolve the denuclearization issue through dialogue, despite China's ongoing trade war with the U.S.
A military source has confirmed that the South Korean military started a project in July to build home-grown stealth drones.
The source said the unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAV, could be deployed in combat after 2030 once a budget for them is approved by a council under the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Meanwhile, an official with U.S. Forces Korea, when asked about media reports that America plans to replace its F-16 fighter jets in Korea with F-35s, did not deny it.
The F-35s also have stealth capability.
The number of remains from the Korean War that have been recovered has dramatically increased thanks to the government's excavation project initiated this year including the project on Arrowhead Ridge, which is located inside the Demilitarized Zone.
The ministry says the second half of the excavation project will start today.
Seoul's defense ministry said that 457 bone pieces were recovered in the five months leading up to July -- that's a little more than double the previous year.
The ministry asked for public support and participation in collecting DNA samples to identify the remain's origins so that they could be sent to their families.
South Korea is on track towards removing Japan from its "whitelist" of trusted trading partners.
According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the government plans to implement a change to the nation's export control system that entails dropping Tokyo this month to the newly-created A-2 group of countries.
The ministry says it will complete a 20-day public opinion gathering process on Tuesday, a necessary step before it can make a public announcement of the revision.
While it did not disclose the number of people who participated in this process, the related posting on the ministry's website received over 2-thousand views.
Source: Arirang News
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