SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s trash-filled balloons have caused combined damage exceeding 100 million won (US$74,600) in the wider capital area of South Korea over the past three months, according to data Sunday. Damage was reported due to trash bundles that landed in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province between May 28 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –The government on Tuesday designated Armed Forces Day on Oct. 1 as a temporary holiday this year to boost troop morale and domestic consumption. A motion to designate the holiday was passed during a Cabinet meeting and signed off by President Yoon Suk Yeol later in the day. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Ocean Co., a major South Korean defense and shipbuilding company, said Tuesday it has begun maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for a 40,000-ton logistics support vessel of the U.S. Navy. The Wally Schirra arrived at Hanwha Ocean’s shipyard in Geoje on the southern coast of South Korea [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will conduct offensive cyberdefense operations to protect critical national infrastructure from hacking attacks and counter disinformation, the presidential office said Sunday. The National Security Council (NSC) unveiled the National Cybersecurity Basic Plan jointly drawn up with 14 government agencies, including the spy agency, police as well as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A military intelligence official indicted this week for allegedly selling military secrets was recruited by a suspected Chinese operative in 2017, military prosecutors said Wednesday. Military prosecutors indicted the official at the Defense Intelligence Command on Tuesday on charges of aiding the enemy, receiving bribes and violating the Military [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has sent more than 13,000 shipping containers suspected of carrying arms to Russia since mid-2022 amid deepening bilateral military ties, a lawmaker said Tuesday, citing a military intelligence report. The North delivered the shipments that could hold more than 6 million 152-millimeter artillery shells through its eastern [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – In a powerful display of military cooperation, South Korea and the United States have begun their large-scale amphibious landing exercise, known as Ssangyong (Double Dragon), along the southeastern coast of Pohang and the eastern seaboard. The exercise, designed to enhance combat readiness and interoperability between the two allies, runs [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States commenced a joint live-fire aerial exercise on Monday, a move aimed at bolstering defenses against the growing threat posed by North Korea. The South Korean Air Force announced that the three-day exercise began earlier in the day over the waters off South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States will begin their large-scale amphibious landing exercise in the southeastern city of Pohang and the eastern coast this week to build up the allies’ combat readiness posture and interoperability, the South’s Navy and Marine Corps said Sunday. This year’s Ssangyong (double dragon) exercise, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Friday denounced the United States’ approval of a potential sale of Apache attack helicopters to South Korea as a provocative act that deliberately aims to increase security instability in the region. A North Korean foreign ministry official issued the statement after the U.S. announced a decision [...]