
She embarked on a solo entertainment career in Korea for several years, before officially abandoning her dreams of K-pop stardom in 2018.

The gruelling and miserable experience that Tasha, 26, had was also what drove her away from showbiz. Despite a smooth debut, the group's tumultuous journey led to its eventual disbandment in 2014. Tasha would eventually join fellow Singaporean Ferlyn Wong and two other Korean girls - Jenny and Sol - to form K-pop group, SKarf.Īfter two years of intensive training, Tasha made her debut as the leader of SKarf. In 2010, Natasha Low (better known by her stage name Tasha) beat out many K-pop idol hopefuls on the Singapore leg of the JYP & Alpha Asean Region Audition to become one of Singapore's first K-pop girls. He was credited for arranging now-stalled nuclear diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington but also faced criticism that such a diplomacy only allowed Kim Jong Un to buy time to prefect weapons technology while enjoying an elevated standing on the world stage.She had a unique opportunity that many girls would probably kill for - the chance to be a K-pop idol and possibly share the spotlight with the big names of the industry.

Liberal President Moon Jae-in, who served from 2017 until this year, championed greater reconciliation between the Koreas. When South Korea was governed by another conservative leader, Park Geun-hye, from 2013-2017, her government also warned North Korea would evaporate from Earth or self-destruct with its provocations, as the North conducted a slew of missile and nuclear tests. Seoul’s use of words like “self-destruction” is unusual but it’s not the first time. North Korea has bluntly rejected that aid-for-disarmament offer and unleashed crude insults on the Yoon government. Since taking office in May, South Korea’s new conservative government, led by President Yoon Suk Yeol, has said it would take a tougher stance on North Korean provocation but also offered massive support plans if the North denuclearizes. and South Korean officials have said North Korea could also carry out its first nuclear test in five years. Kim has dialed up weapons tests to a record pace this year by test-launching a slew of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles targeting both the U.S. He accused the United States of pushing to weaken the North’s defenses and eventually collapse his government. The loose wording raised concerns the rules are largely meant as a legal basis to use its nuclear weapons pre-emptively to intimidate its rivals into making concessions amid long-stalled diplomacy on its weapons arsenal.ĭuring the parliament’s meeting, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a speech that his country will never abandon its nuclear weapons it needs to cope with U.S. The legislation would allow North Korea to use its nuclear weapons if its leadership face an imminent attack or if it aims to prevent an unspecified “catastrophic crisis” to its people. Last week, North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament adopted the legislation on the governing rules of its nuclear arsenal.

military alliance and go on the path of self-destruction, if it attempts to use nuclear weapons,” Moon Hong Sik, an acting ministry spokesperson, told reporters. “We warn that the North Korean government would face the overwhelming response by the South Korea-U.S. security commitment to defend its ally South Korea with all available capabilities, including nuclear one.

To get North Korea not to use its nuclear weapons, the ministry said South Korea will sharply boost its own preemptive attack, missile defense and massive retaliation capacities while seeking a greater U.S. South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the legislation would only deepen North Korea’s isolation and prompt Seoul and Washington to “further strengthen their deterrence and reaction capacities.”
