SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Thursday disclosed what appears to be an airborne early warning and control aircraft for the first time and said leader Kim Jong-un supervised tests of “suicide attack drones” equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published photos of the airplane while [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The state arms procurement agency said Wednesday it has completed a project to upgrade simulators for the Army’s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as part of efforts to better train pilots. The military has sought upgrades to the aging simulators deployed in 2000 and 2008 that have suffered performance issues [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Navy held a ceremony Wednesday to honor sailors killed during the 2010 sinking of the Cheonan corvette by a North Korean attack in the Yellow Sea. The 1,200-ton warship sank near the western Northern Limit Line, a de facto inter-Korean maritime border, in March 2010, after a North [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The veterans ministry said Tuesday it will hold a lighting ceremony in Seoul this week to honor South Korean service members killed during military clashes with North Korea while defending the western maritime border. The three-day ceremony will begin Wednesday evening at Cheonggye Plaza in central Seoul, illuminating 55 [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea launched a project Monday to excavate the remains of a presumed South African pilot killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, Seoul’s defense ministry said. The project, which runs through April 11, aims to find the remains of a South African Air Force pilot presumed to have been [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean and Indonesian defense officials have reaffirmed their cooperation for a joint project to develop the KF-21 fighter jet, the South’s arms procurement agency said Monday. Seok Jong-gun, minister of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), and Donny Ermawan Taufanto, Indonesia’s deputy minister of defense, discussed the joint [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has successfully test-fired its latest surface-to-air missile system, which was recently put into full-scale production, as leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the test, state media reported Friday. The test-firing was conducted by the country’s Missile Administration on Thursday to “examine the comprehensive performance” of the missile system being [...]
SEOUL, INCHEON & BEIJING, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A standoff between South Korean and Chinese maritime authorities has erupted in the West Sea’s Provisional Measure Zone (PMZ) near Ieodo, after South Korea attempted to investigate an unauthorized steel structure installed by China. According to government sources, on February 26, South Korea dispatched the Onnuri, a [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A general supervising operations of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has pledged to maintain a “strong, forward-deployed force” in South Korea in a bid to ensure its security commitment in the face of North Korea’s military threats. Maj. Gen. William D. “Hank” Taylor, director of operations for United Nations [...]
SEJONG, South Korea, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Group is making a renewed attempt to acquire Austal, an Australian shipbuilding company that supplies vessels to the U.S. and Australian navies, through its defense affiliates Hanwha Systems and Hanwha Aerospace. The move follows Hanwha’s previous failed bid in April 2024, when its subsidiary Hanwha Ocean offered [...]