Trump defended the Pentagon's new policy on journalist access to the department

US President Donald Trump defended yesterday the new Defense Department policy regarding the media, which limits what journalists accredited to the Pentagon can publish and where they can go in the building, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.

Trump said in Washington that he was concerned about "the senior generals who walk around with you (journalists - ed. note), expressing themselves openly and asking them (questions), because they can make a mistake, and a mistake can have tragic consequences".

Journalists were given until 5:00 p.m. local time yesterday (21:00 GMT) to agree to the new rules, according to which they undertake not to receive or publish any unauthorized materials, including unclassified information - or lose their credentials.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on the social media platform "Ex" on Monday that all new rules require the following: "The press no longer moves freely", as well as "the press must wear a visible official badge" and "accredited press can no longer incite criminal acts".

South Korea's Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Presidential Chief Secretary for Political Affairs will travel to the United States on Monday for talks on reducing tariffs on goods imported from the Asian country, the South Korean government said today, as quoted by Reuters.

South Korea's Minister of Economy and Finance said this week that "tremendous progress" has been made in discussions on the details of the preliminary agreement.

A judge in the US state of Florida has temporarily blocked the planned transfer of a parcel of land in downtown Miami for Donald Trump's future presidential library, the Associated Press reported.

The decision by Judge Mavel Ruiz comes after a Miami activist said officials from a local college violated Florida's state transparency law by donating a significant parcel of land to the state, which then voted to transfer it to the foundation for the planned presidential library.

The nearly 3-acre (1.2-hectare) property is valued at more than $67 million, according to the Miami-Dade County assessor. As one of the last undeveloped parcels along the iconic palm-lined Biscayne Blvd., the land could sell for hundreds of millions of dollars more, according to a real estate expert.