SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, Kang Jung-ai, has penned a letter of gratitude to RM, the leader of K-pop group BTS, acknowledging his recent 100 million won donation to the veterans’ welfare fund while serving his mandatory military service. The ministry released the contents of Kang’s letter [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – President Yoon Suk Yeol and his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, condemned North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia and agreed to strengthen security and defense industry cooperation during their summit Thursday. Yoon and Duda voiced concerns over the growing military ties between Pyongyang and Moscow after South Korea and the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to launch its third military reconnaissance satellite in December, the state arms procurement agency said Wednesday, as part of efforts to bolster its surveillance capabilities on North Korea. A SpaceX rocket carrying the satellite is scheduled to lift off in the third or fourth week of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is considering sending a team of personnel to Ukraine to monitor North Korean troops being deployed to support Russia, a government source said Tuesday. Last week, Seoul’s spy agency said North Korea sent some 1,500 special forces to Russia this month to take part in the war [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A pro-Russia Telegram account has posted a photo showing the Russian and North Korean flags side by side on a Ukrainian battlefield, indicating that North Korea has likely sent troops to support Russia in its prolonged war with Ukraine. The image, shared by a blogger named @rvvoenkor_bot on Monday, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Ministry of National Defense and the White House have voiced concerns over reports suggesting North Korea has sent troops to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, marking a potential escalation in military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. On October 16, South Korea’s Defense Ministry stated they were “closely [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — About a dozen South Korean companies on Monday showcased their cutting-edge military products, including an unmanned ground vehicle, border patrol drone and automatic artillery bore cleaner, at a major exhibition in Washington, amid growing prospects for defense industrial cooperation with the United States. The Association of the U.S. Army [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 20 cases of drone crashes and malfunction took place at a key military unit overseeing unmanned vehicle operations since its launch last year, a lawmaker said Friday. The Drone Operations Command reported four drone crashes due to engine and sensor issues, 10 cases of engine malfunction, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan interfered with South Korea’s marine research around its easternmost islets of Dokdo more than 70 times over a recent five year period, a lawmaker said Thursday. The hindrances to the research on climate change and the marine environment took place 75 times from 2019 to 2023, Hwang Hee, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The possibility of war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula has reached its highest level since the 1950-53 Korean War, according to a recent analysis published in Foreign Policy magazine. Robert Manning, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank, wrote in his article that while an immediate [...]