Devising a concrete plan to strengthen its self-defense capabilities and recalibrating its policy on North Korea would be top priorities for Seoul over the next two months.

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The United States has added South Korea to its “monitoring list” of major trading partners whose currency practices call for closer attention, according to a Treasury Department report released Thursday.

The US Treasury added South Korea to a “monitoring list” for foreign-exchange practices that continues to include Japan and Germany, and reiterated its criticism of China’s lack of transparency with regard to managing its currency.

The United States has put Korea back on its list of countries to monitor for their foreign exchange policies a year after the Asian country's exclusion from the list, a Treasury Department report showed Thursday.