SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will send US$2 million in humanitarian aid to flood-stricken Libya, the foreign ministry said Sunday. The aid will be sent via the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the ministry said. More than [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Senior South Korean and U.S. defense officials have agreed to cooperate in utilizing 5th generation (5G) wireless technology in combined operations, Seoul’s defense ministry said Friday. South Korean Vice Defense Minister Shin Beom-chul and Heidi Shyu, the U.S. under secretary of defense for research and engineering, vowed to carry [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) –The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been in discussions with China over establishing a joint information mechanism over the water discharge from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, similar to the agency’s arrangement with South Korea, according to the agency’s chief. In light of the water discharge that began [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un headed straight to an aircraft plant that builds fighter jets after arriving in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, following his rare summit with President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, according to Russian news agencies Friday. Kim arrived at a railway station in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has clinched an agreement with Ukraine to offer low-interest loans to the war-torn nation to help its reconstruction projects, the finance ministry said Friday. Kim Hyung-tae, South Korea’s ambassador to Ukraine, and Ukrainian First Vice Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko signed the agreement in Kyiv earlier this week [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top diplomat hinted Friday that Seoul could potentially impose unilateral sanctions against Moscow amid a recent summit between North Korea and Russia that has prompted concerns of military cooperation between the two countries. “North Korea reaching any agreement related to arms trade with Russia through their summit [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States is concerned about growing defense cooperation between North Korea and Russia, a National Security Council (NSC) official said Wednesday, adding the U.S. will take appropriate steps if necessary to counter any potential arms deal between the two countries. John Kirby, NSC strategic communications coordinator, underscored that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Dozens of lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties were to depart for Tokyo on Thursday for an annual meeting with their Japanese counterparts. A total of 39 members of the South Korea-Japan Parliamentarians’ Union are scheduled to meet with Korean residents in Japan later Thursday before attending the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Pyongyang supports Moscow’s “sacred fight” against the West as the two isolated leaders held a rare summit in Russia on Wednesday, amid concerns that they may advance an arms negotiation and bolster military cooperation. With the participation of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has received no requests from Tokyo to expand imports of Japanese seafood and plans to maintain the import ban as is, officials said Wednesday, denying a news report that Japan is trying to increase seafood exports to South Korea. Vice Oceans Minister Park Sung-hoon made the remark [...]