South Korea backs Trump bid to revive North Korea talks, seeks nuclear progress

On 28 August 2026, South Korea backed Trump's bid to revive talks with North Korea and seeks nuclear progress. A poll shows 65 percent support South Korea possessing nuclear weapons, and an AFP fact check says Trump falsely inflated defence cost-sharing and US troop levels in South Korea.

Elsewhere, a South Korean team is in Nepal to search for nine people missing from the Trishuli construction site; Nepal declined foreign rescue help, and South Korea says it is negotiating. South Korea's presidential office asked the chief justice for a new recommendation for a Supreme Court justice.