SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to carry out a landmine and ordnance disposal operation in Vietnam, an overseas aid agency said Sunday. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) announced that it has been engaged in a peacebuilding project in Vietnam’s Binh Dinh, Quang Ngai and Thua Thien Hue provinces in cooperation [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea opened a research laboratory Tuesday to develop a demining solution utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance accuracy of the military’s mine clearance operations, the defense ministry said. The ministries of defense and science established the laboratory at the Army Engineer School in Jangseong, 308 kilometers south of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Officials of a U.N. anti-mine agency discussed ways to support South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s vision for removing mines inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas, the United Nations Command (UNC) has said. In a Facebook post updated on Friday, the UNC said its staff attended [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry pledged Wednesday to mobilize greater levels of personnel and equipment to complete the removal of landmines across the country by 2021, three years ahead of schedule, to ensure public safety. The military buried about 53,000 M14 antipersonnel mines around 37 military bases across the country between [...]
CHEORWON, South Korea, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –After a 15-minute bumpy ride along a dusty, hilly path inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), dozens of South Korean troops in full gear disembarked near a grisly site of intense battles during the 1950-53 Korean War. Accompanying them in the buffer zone separating the two Koreas was a [...]