SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea needs to consider various options to tackle North Korea’s nuclear issue, including Seoul’s arming itself with its own nuclear weapons, a state-run think tank said in a report Sunday, amid heightened concerns raised by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest visit to Pyongyang. The Institute for National Security Strategy [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea urged Russia on Friday to “immediately halt” military cooperation with North Korea and “act responsibly” after Moscow signed a new treaty with Pyongyang on providing each other military assistance in case of an armed attack on either of them. First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong-kyun delivered the [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government said Thursday it will reconsider its stance on arms supply to Ukraine after North Korea and Russia signed a treaty that involves a mutual pledge to provide immediate military assistance if one of them is attacked. National Security Advisor Chang Ho-jin also expressed regret over [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty calling for mutual assistance if either is attacked Wednesday as they held summit talks in Pyongyang. Putin also said Russia does not rule out military and technical cooperation with North Korea in line [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean military has postponed planned live-fire artillery exercises, a move seen as an effort to manage escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, according to officials. On June 17, the South Korean marine corps was expected to conduct drills using K9 self-propelled howitzers around the islands of Baengnyeong and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Army has brought into service a new domestically developed bridging system called “Suryon” (Water Dragon), significantly enhancing its ability to cross rivers and other water obstacles during military operations. The Suryon, now deployed with the 7th Maneuver Corps, is an amphibious vehicle capable of transforming from a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has completed the development of a high-tech radar system expected to bolster the military’s surveillance capabilities along the coastline, the state arms procurement agency said Monday. The GPS-240K, which was developed to replace the existing radar system that had been in operation for more than 25 years, [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) – A North Korean defectors’ group said Saturday that it has sent additional propaganda leaflets critical of the North Korean regime across the border, heightening concerns that Pyongyang may resume sending balloons filled with trash in retaliation. Ten large balloons, carrying approximately 200,000 leaflets criticizing North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, were [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has notably increased his public activities related to the military over the past three months, according to a new analysis by the Korea Institute for National Unification, a think tank in Seoul. In a report titled “Analysis of the North Korean Leadership’s Public Activities [...]
ISTANBUL & SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –Turkey has expressed its intention to export the domestically produced Altay tank, which incorporates technology from South Korea’s ‘Black Panther’ (K2) main battle tank, to various European countries. In a recent interview with Turkey’s state-run TRT Haber broadcaster on Friday, Haluk Gorgun, the head of the Defence Industry [...]