SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean man has been under investigation on charges of stealing a device used in military explosives while serving in the Army and collecting or uploading video clips related to the Islamic State (IS) militant group, defense ministry officials said Friday. The 23-year-old man, identified only by his [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military is willing to provide security forces to the United States’ military units in the country to fend off potential terrorist attacks by the militant Islamic State (IS), which threatened to launch attacks against American installations here, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday. South Korea’s police [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye reiterated her calls Tuesday for parliamentary approval of a bill meant to protect South Korea from possible terrorist attacks. She warned that South Korea could neither properly cooperate with the international community nor exchange intelligence on terrorism unless parliament endorses the bill. “Even IS came to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean teenager, who reportedly joined Islamic State (IS), is believed to be dead, a senior government official said Tuesday. The 18-year-old Kim disappeared in January during his trip to the southern Turkish town of Kilis. The National Intelligence Service said Kim seems to have crossed the border [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean teenager who vanished in Turkey last month has joined the Islamic State (IS) militant group and has been receiving training, lawmakers quoted South Korea’s national spy agency as saying Tuesday. The 18-year-old, identified only by his surname Kim, disappeared on Jan. 10 during a trip to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KOCSC) is planning to increase anti-terror surveillance on SNS since an 18 year-old Korean teen, known by his surname Kim, was reported to have joined ISIS via messages on SNS. The KOCSC is intensively monitoring online postings for messages related to recruiting or plotting terrorist [...]
ISTANBUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean teenager has recently vanished in Turkey, the South Korean Embassy and a local media report said Saturday, raising the possibility that he might have joined the extremist Muslim militant group IS in Syria. Milliyet, a local Turkish daily newspaper, said in a report that the South [...]