BUSAN, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier on Wednesday arrived at South Korea’s southern port of Busan to participate in the ongoing joint exercises by Seoul and Washington in the latest show of force against North Korea, the U.S. military said. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier plans to conduct bilateral exercises [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States will deploy an unmanned attack aircraft to its military unit in South Korea to enhance its strike capabilities against ground targets in North Korea, a military official said Monday. “The U.S. Army has begun the process to dispatch a squadron, which will operate the Grey Eagle [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Army plans to study ways to introduce “swarming warfare” in its tactical operations, which uses scores of drones equipped with high explosive bombs, a military official here said Sunday. ”We’re planning to make a full-fledged research on applying military swarming, which is already in operational use in [...]
GUMI, SOUTH KOREA, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gumi City government saw more than two hundred people apply for a number of public area cleaning job openings after it began taking applicants. Of the 239 candidates, nearly one hundred had a university degree or more while 131 were high school graduates. A mere 14 people [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States has begun the process of deploying an advanced missile defense system known as THAAD to South Korea to better counter growing threats by North Korea, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said Tuesday. South Korean military officials said the deployment could be completed within one or [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly one in four prisoners at North Korea’s labor camps die of disease while in confinement, a Seoul-based think tank said in a report released Tuesday. The report by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies said that the fatality rate at North Korea’s political prisons is estimated at close [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government and ruling party agreed Tuesday to “actively” consider filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over China’s escalating economic retaliation against the planned deployment of a U.S. missile defense system to the peninsula. The move came after the Chinese authorities reportedly directed local [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – One day after North Korea fired four ballistic missiles, its state-run news agency said Tuesday the country has conducted a missile launch exercise targeting U.S. military bases in Japan. The drill was conducted by Hwasong artillery units of its Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army, “tasked to strike [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday fired four ballistic missiles into the East Sea, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, in an apparent reaction to the ongoing joint military drills between South Korea and the United States. The four projectiles were launched from an area near the North’s Dongchang-ri long-range missile [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Rumors surrounding the recent assassination of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half brother, in Malaysia are quickly spreading by mouth in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, the leader of a group of North Korean defectors here said Friday. “Pyongyang citizens are in a rage as the [...]