SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The state arms procurement agency has requested a police investigation into an Indonesian engineer’s alleged attempt to steal technologies related to a joint fighter jet development project, defense officials said Thursday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) made the request Wednesday after concluding a preliminary joint government probe into [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan held inaugural director-level talks Thursday to discuss ways of enhancing trilateral cooperation on export controls in the commerce and industry sectors against Russia, Seoul’s industry ministry said. The inaugural Commerce and Industry Export Control Dialogue took place in Tokyo, as leaders of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent findings have revealed that using Microsoft’s Bing search engine to look up “Dokdo” in English from the United States and Japan yields terms predominantly used by Japan to undermine South Korea’s sovereignty over the Dokdo islets. According to Professor Seo Kyoung-duk of Sungshin Women’s University, a search conducted in [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Former President Donald Trump’s recent controversial remarks on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is stoking a renewed yet consequential question for South Korea: Would America’s security commitment remain steadfast in the midst of seemingly unbridled North Korean threats? During a campaign rally in South Carolina on Saturday, Trump [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry and the Pentagon will lead the third meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) slated for June in Seoul to discuss a shared nuclear strategy to deter North Korea’s nuclear threat. Cho Chang-rae, South Korea’s deputy defense minister for policy, and Vipin Narang, principal U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and Colombia on Wednesday signed an agreement to mutually recognize the airworthiness certification of their military aircraft, the state arms procurement agency said, in a boost for Seoul’s efforts to export aircraft to the South American country. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said it signed the [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. diplomat on Monday highlighted America’s commitment to working in tandem with South Korea and Japan to address growing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, which he said serves only to prolong Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Speaking at a forum, Robert Koepcke, deputy assistant secretary of state [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is “open-minded” about the idea of Japan participating in a currently bilateral nuclear deterrence dialogue between Seoul and Washington, a former South Korean national security advisor said Monday. Kim Sung-han, who served as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s top security advisor from 2022-2023, made the remarks, noting that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court upheld an 18-month prison sentence for an Uzbek national accused of sending money to a U.N.-designated terrorist group while residing in South Korea, judicial officials said Tuesday. The Seoul Central District Court confirmed the lower court’s ruling on the migrant worker from Uzbekistan, saying the provision [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea seeks to start developing an advanced ship-based missile interceptor this year, the state arms procurement agency has said, amid efforts to counter evolving North Korean military threats. Last year, the country’s defense authorities approved a 690 billion-won (US$520 million) project set to run through 2030 to develop [...]