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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, in the recalcitrant regime’s eighth show of force this year. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch from around the Sunan area in Pyongyang at 7:52 a.m., and that [...]
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, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to put into operations a newly unveiled homegrown submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) at sea around the second half of next year, sources said Monday. Last week, the country unveiled its first homegrown SLBM by announcing the successful test-launch from the 3,000-ton-class Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine. South [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]