SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Defense chief Shin Won-sik said Thursday that South Korea’s partial suspension of a 2018 inter-Korean tension reduction deal is “a proportional response” and “a minimal defensive measure” against Pyongyang following its spy satellite launch. Shin’s comments came hours after North Korea’s defense ministry vowed to immediately restore all military [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign Minister Park Jin held talks with his British counterpart to discuss growing North Korean threats and ways to boost their bilateral relations, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. In the breakfast meeting held in London on Tuesday (local time), Park and Foreign Secretary David Cameron voiced concerns over North [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military said Wednesday that Pyongyang’s purported military spy satellite is assessed to have entered into orbit, although more time is needed to determine whether it is operating properly. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) made the assessment after the North claimed to have successfully put the satellite [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea suspended part of a 2018 inter-Korean military tension reduction agreement Wednesday in response to North Korea’s latest launch of a military spy satellite. Under the proposal approved in an extraordinary Cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, Seoul will restore reconnaissance and surveillance activities around [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan shared information about North Korea’s launch of what it claimed to be a military spy satellite, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday. “We immediately detected, tracked and monitored the launch, and shared related information among South Korea, the United [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s claimed success in placing its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit on its third attempt has raised the possibility it could have received technological assistance from Russia. North Korea said a new type of Chollima-1 space rocket successfully put the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit on Tuesday night, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean military warned North Korea on Monday to “immediately stop” preparations for another military spy satellite launch, vowing to take “necessary measures” if it presses ahead with the launch. Lt. Gen. Kang Ho-pil, chief director of operations at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), made the warning, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is considering partially suspending a 2018 inter-Korean military agreement as a precautionary measure against North Korean provocations in case it makes a third attempt to launch a spy satellite, sources said Tuesday. The Comprehensive Military Agreement calls for setting up buffer zones and no-fly zones near the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense chiefs of South Korea and the United States held annual security talks Monday as the two countries seek to update joint military strategies on North Korea in case the regime attempts to use nuclear weapons. Updating the “tailored deterrence strategy” and improving the credibility of the U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Monday renewed its calls for dissolving the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC), claiming that a plan by South Korea and UNC member states to hold the inaugural defense ministerial meeting this week is a “dangerous” scheme to spark a “new war of aggression” against the North. [...]