SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed the government Tuesday to thoroughly prepare safety measures for South Korean residents and travelers in Israel amid its escalating conflict with the Hamas militant group. Yoon gave the instruction during a Cabinet meeting, while noting that the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Hamas’ surprise rocket attack on Israel has renewed security concerns in South Korea over Seoul’s capabilities to counter a potential attack from North Korea. Hamas unleashed a barrage of some 5,000 rockets on Israel last Saturday, with some of them bypassing Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, despite its known [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean Navy cruise training group, including 151 naval cadets, arrived at a port in Maryland on Monday, for a visit to mark the 70th anniversary of the alliance between South Korea and the United States. ROKS Hansando (ATH-81), a training ship, and ROKS Hwacheon (AOE-59), a combat [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. military has changed the naming of the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan in photo captions describing the venue for last week’s bilateral naval drills with South Korea, its website showed Thursday. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command had initially used the Japanese name for the body of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of South Korea’s arms procurement agency has visited Indonesia to try to resolve Jakarta’s unpaid share of costs for a joint fighter jet development project, his office said Thursday. Eom Dong-hwan, minister of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), left for Indonesia on Wednesday and is expected [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A pro-North Korean newspaper said Thursday that Pyongyang’s status as a nuclear state has become “irreversible” with the recent stipulation of a nuclear force-building policy in its constitution. In a key parliamentary meeting attended by leader Kim Jong-un last week, the North stipulated the policy of strengthening its nuclear [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Celebrating this year’s 70th anniversary of the South Korea-United States alliance, Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s key newswire, will publish a white paper, containing the development of bilateral relations, and kick off a special photo exhibition in Seoul this week. The white paper shows the traces of the two [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has announced plans to create a hub in Poland for exporting defense products to Europe. The Ministry of National Defense is looking to set up a Defense Cooperation Center in Poland, which will serve as a base to expand defense exports to Europe, as stated by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A contingent of South Korean sailors departed for waters off Somalia earlier this week as part of a regular rotation of troops conducting anti-piracy operations in the region, the Navy said Friday. The ROKS Yang Man-chun destroyer, carrying the 41st rotation of the Cheonghae unit, left the naval base [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. Department of Defense labeled North Korea as a “persistent” threat in an updated key security document released Thursday, warning that its military capability advancements would give the recalcitrant regime options to use nuclear arms “at any stage of conflict.” The Pentagon published the first Strategy for Countering [...]