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N. Korea on Track to Secure Advanced ICBM Capabilities: Experts

N. Korea on Track to Secure Advanced ICBM Capabilities: Experts

SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test this week underscores apparent progress in its push for advanced, more reliable nuclear delivery means targeting the United States, experts said Friday. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that at the behest of leader Kim Jong-un, the country successfully [...]

N. Korea’s ICBM Launch Marks Sad Coda to Moon’s Peace Drive, Challenge for Successor Yoon

N. Korea’s ICBM Launch Marks Sad Coda to Moon’s Peace Drive, Challenge for Successor Yoon

SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch Thursday ended its moratorium on nuclear and ICBM tests — an anticipated move denting President Moon Jae-in’s fragile peace drive and presaging a struggle for his successor, Yoon Suk-yeol. The end to the moratorium, a symbol of budding trust with Washington, is [...]

N. Korea Fiddling with ICBM Card to Pressure U.S. to Ease Sanctions: Experts

N. Korea Fiddling with ICBM Card to Pressure U.S. to Ease Sanctions: Experts

SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s recent “reconnaissance satellite” development tests and leader Kim Jong-un’s subsequent visits to its space agency and long-range rocket test site could be carefully calibrated events to heap pressure on the United States, analysts said Friday. The chain of choreographed episodes signals Pyongyang has edged closer to making [...]

N. Korea Fires Intermediate-range Ballistic Missile Toward East Sea

N. Korea Fires Intermediate-range Ballistic Missile Toward East Sea

SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) into the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, raising fears that Pyongyang has inched toward its threatened suspension of a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the missile, [...]

S. Korea Successfully Tests SLBM from New Submarine

S. Korea Successfully Tests SLBM from New Submarine

SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has successfully test-fired a homegrown submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a new submarine to become the world’s eighth country to possess the weapon, sources said Tuesday. The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) carried out underwater ejection tests of the SLBM from the Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine last [...]

Moon Orders Thorough Implementation of U.N. Sanctions on N. Korea

Moon Orders Thorough Implementation of U.N. Sanctions on N. Korea

SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in ordered thorough implementation of the latest U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea after the communist nation defiantly carried out yet another ballistic missile launch, the presidential spokesman said Friday. Moon issued the order during a National Security Council meeting he presided over after the North [...]

South Korea Takes Tit-For-Tat Approach Against the North

South Korea Takes Tit-For-Tat Approach Against the North

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 [...]

North Korea Claims Successful Test of Precision-Guided Ballistic Missile

North Korea Claims Successful Test of Precision-Guided Ballistic Missile

SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea announced Tuesday it succeeded in the latest launch of a ballistic missile, which it said features a new high-precision guidance system and a quick launch process.  The North’s leader Kim Jong-un observed the test-firing of a “precision-guided ballistic rocket capable of making ultra-precision strike,” the Korean Central [...]