SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Facing a bellicose northern neighbor that fires missiles, tests nukes and habitually threatens a war of annihilation, South Korea may look like a dangerous flashpoint to the eyes of outsiders. But the country has been inured, or resigned, to the perennial threats from North Korea for decades. So small [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States will wrap up their combined defense drills on Thursday as scheduled amid renewed tensions on the peninsula, officials said. The annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) exercise, which started on Aug. 21, has involved more than 50,000 South Korea troops and around 17,500 American [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Behind the warmongering, threatening, obnoxious bluster of North Korea is a rapidly changing society evidenced by the proliferation of cell phones and greater emphasis on English lessons throughout the public education system. The early 2000s was when cracks started to appear in the omnipresent communist ethos. Small outbursts of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean military officials have released video footage of ballistic missile flight tests including those with a range of 500 and 800 kilometers as a show of force amid growing threats from North Korea, signaling a shift in president Moon Jae-in’s North Korea policy towards a more tit-for-tat approach. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in’s top security advisor said Thursday that the temporary deployment of four additional launchers of a U.S. missile defense system is expected to be completed “in the near future.” Chung Eui-yong, the chief of the National Security Office, made the remarks during a parliamentary budget committee session [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — According to the “Beijing Youth Daily” on August 23, a Beijing city government task force ordered the removal of Lotte Mart generators in Juixianqiao and Yangqiao on the grounds of excessive energy use last year. To add insult to injury, the Beijing paper reported that the city had recently [...]
YEONCHEON, South Korea, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea released water from a border dam without giving prior notice to South Korea on Monday, causing the water levels of a cross-border river downstream to rise dangerously, officials said. The North opened the floodgates of Hwanggang Dam on the western inter-Korean border, sending water into [...]
BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Chinese sign that read “Hanguocheng,” meaning South Korean food court, on the building of a restaurant mall in Wangjing, the once prosperous Koreatown in northeastern Beijing, has been replaced by “Meishijie,” or Gourmet food street. The change reflects an ever-rising anti-South Korean sentiment in China amid the current [...]
BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – China said Monday it will enforce the latest United Nations sanctions on North Korea this week, banning the imports of resources and seafood from the country. The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2371 on Aug. 5 in response the North’s two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July. The new [...]
SEONGJU, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Local residents and activists campaigning against the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system said Sunday they will not accept the outcome of a government survey that ruled out the possibility of its serious environmental damage. On Saturday, the government announced the result of a survey of electromagnetic [...]