SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will push forward with the installation of an advanced U.S. missile defense system despite objections raised by China, Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn said Friday “The deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery is a vital defense measure to meet national security [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States officially kicked off negotiations Thursday to finalize the terms of deploying the advanced American missile defense system THAAD in South Korea, the foreign ministry said. “With regard to the provision of land (for the deployment), a request has been filed to open negotiations [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Lotte Group approved a planned land swap with the military on Monday, paving the way for the installation of an advanced U.S. missile defense system between May and July as scheduled, the defense ministry said. “We have received a notice from Lotte Group that the company has [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A state-run institute on chemical safety said Monday it has taken a set of measures to secure state-of-the-art equipment for effectively dealing with chemical accidents and chemical terrorism at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics and other major sports events. The measures came on the heels of the revelation that [...]
KUALA LUMPUR/SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was killed with a banned chemical weapons agent, Malaysian police said Friday. Traces of the lethal VX nerve agent were found on the North Korean’s face and eyes, according to a preliminary assessment released by the Chemistry Department of Malaysia, [...]
SHENYANG, China, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese authorities have delayed the customs clearance of textbooks to be used at South Korean schools in China, pushing back the schools’ classes for the new academic semester, sources with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday. South Korean residents expressed concerns that the postponement of the customs clearance [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense chief said Monday that North Korea’s alleged assassination of its leader Kim Jong-un’s half brother appears to be part of Pyongyang’s move to remove any potential challengers to Kim’s power and forestall any outside attempt to overthrow its regime. “The murder of Kim Jong-nam by the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Malaysian government said Thursday that it will turn over the body of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s half-brother, to North Korea once the investigative process is complete, which officials expect will be as late as the beginning of next week. Although it is customary for a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s spy agency said Tuesday the latest missile launched by Pyongyang that reached a top speed of Mach 8.5 is capable of flying more than 2,000 kilometers. During the meeting with the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said the missile was launched at a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has misappropriated part of an international relief package to help it deal with the devastation caused by deadly flooding last year for its major infrastructure projects, a U.S. broadcast said Tuesday. A source in the northern Ryanggang Province told Radio Free Asia (RFA) that materials and funds [...]