1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday called for thorough countermeasures against the “illegal” military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, saying the deepening alliance poses a significant security threat to South Korea.

2.South Korea’s Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun and his Canadian counterpart, Bill Blair, held talks in Ottawa on Friday and condemned North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia.

3.U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are heading into election day neck-and-neck in national and state polls. Experts say that the seven swing states will determine who wins in the polls after they close on November 5th.

1.According to Seoul’s foreign ministry on Friday, South Korea's foreign minister Cho Tae-yul met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington the previous day on the sidelines of the “two-plus-two” meeting, and agreed to closely work together to respond to the North Korean troops' possible participation in Russia's war in Ukraine.

2.The Czech antitrust watchdog, the Office for the Protection of Competition, said Thursday it denied complaints from the United States' Westinghouse and France's EDF over the Czech government's decision to pick Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power as a preferred bidder to build two nuclear units.

3.According to data compiled by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Friday, South Korea's exports extended on-year gains for the 13th straight month in October, on the back of robust performance of semiconductors. Outbound shipments rose 4-point-6 percent on-year to 57-point-5 billion U.S. dollars last month.

1.South Korea's military said that North Korea fired what appeared to be a new type of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Thursday, in a move apparently aimed at bolstering Pyongyang's leverage ahead of the U.S. presidential election next week.

2.The Czech Republic's antitrust authority,, on Wednesday imposed a temporary hold on a deal to build two nuclear reactors, for which a South Korean consortium was chosen as the preferred bidder in July.

3. According to data by Statistics Korea on Thursday, South Korea's industrial output fell 0.3 percent from a month earlier in September on dwindling production in the semiconductor. Retail sales, a gauge of private spending, also went down 0.4 percent amid signs of weaker economic growth.