SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol faces a key test of his North Korea policy, as the way he handles the North’s launch this week of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) could set the tone for his relations with Kim Jong-un over the next five years. Yoon campaigned under the slogan of [...]
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, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that was showcased during a military parade marking the ruling Workers’ Party’s 75th founding anniversary appeared to be an integration of the communist country’s latest missile technologies, experts said Sunday. In a parade held in Pyongyang on Saturday, North Korea unveiled the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States kicked off a major air force exercise here Monday against North Korea’s threats, with two dozen U.S. stealth jets mobilized. The five-day Vigilant ACE (air combat exercise) comes less than a week after the North fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and declared the completion of its [...]
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 [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of Americans are in favor of sending troops to defend South Korea in the event of an attack by North Korea, a survey showed Monday, indicating a strengthened commitment toward the Asian ally. The survey, conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs with support [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea said Tuesday that it will make an “important announcement” at 3 p.m. (Pyongyang time) after it launched a ballistic missile earlier in the day. North Korea will make a special announcement, the state-run radio station said, without elaborating. The North fired an unidentified ballistic missile in its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Russian military has conducted another successful launch of its Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile, which, according to officials, can penetrate the THAAD missile battery, the U.S. anti-ballistic missile system the South Korean government is looking to deploy. According to local sources on January 17, a single Topol-M missile was [...]