SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will deploy 12 additional maritime choppers by 2022 to better counter growing North Korean submarine threats, the state defense procurement agency said Tuesday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said the military plans to invest about 900 billion won (US$768 million) to pick a helicopter model for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to install unmanned vigilance equipment at major military posts to complement surveillance soldiers in line with an expected reduction in the troop numbers, the state defense acquisition agency said Monday. The military will gradually put up high-definition security cameras and attach infiltration detection equipment to barbed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean mouthpieces on Friday bashed the outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama, claiming he is now leaving the White House as a loser in his confrontation with North Korea. In an article titled “History of (the United States’) One-sided Nuclear Blackmailing That Has Come to an End,” the Rodong [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will this year launch a special unit tasked with incapacitating North Korea’s wartime leadership, two years ahead of schedule, its defense chief said Wednesday, as it strives to better counter Pyongyang’s evolving military threats. During its New Year policy briefing to Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of North Koreans escaping to South Korea rose 11 percent on-year in 2016, government data showed Tuesday, as more elites and overseas workers fled the country amid tough international sanctions. A total of 1,414 North Koreans came to South Korea last year, compared to 1,275 tallied for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rare event hosted by the United States Forces Korea, four North Korean defectors shared their stories with the members of the 6th Battalion 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment on December 2 at Suwon Air Base, reported American military newspaper Stars and Stripes. Among the defectors were Ken [...]
SHENYANG, China, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has featured a flight crew of its flag carrier Air Koryo in a 2017 calendar of the communist country, obtained Thursday by Yonhap News Agency, in what is seen as an unprecedented move to revitalize its tourism industry amid international sanctions imposed over its nuclear and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rarely seen sight, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appeared at the country’s first conference for the primary committees dressed in a suit, instead of his typical military or “Mao” attire. In photos released on December 24 and 25 by the Korean Central News Agency, Kim wore a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s unification ministry said Tuesday it is checking relevant information to verify whether President Park Geun-hye’s 2005 letter sent to the former North Korean leader violated a law on inter-Korean exchanges. A local media outlet reported that in July 2005, Park, then head of the conservative party, sent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Japan on Friday directly exchanged classified information on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs for the first time in line with their intelligence-sharing pact which came into force last month, the defense ministry said. Defense ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told reporters that the exchange was made [...]