SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Navy SEALs of South Korea and the United States recently concluded a two-week bilateral exercise designed to strengthen their interoperability, officials said Sunday. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said a West-Coast based SEAL team and the South Korean Naval Special Warfare Flotilla concluded their bilateral session on Dec. 9 On [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States began a regular combined military exercise Monday, reviving large-scale field training suspended four years ago as the allies push to bolster defense against evolving North Korean nuclear and missile threats. The Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise is set to run through Sept. 1, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean military has been reconsidering whether to participate in an upcoming multinational military exercise in Thailand as the new coronavirus continues to spread, officials said Sunday. The 39th Cobra Gold exercise, co-sponsored by the Thai and U.S. armed forces, is scheduled to be held from Feb. 26 [...]
SUWON, South Korea, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – As part of the Key Resolve Korea-U.S. military exercise, the Ajou University Hospital conducted a medical evacuation exercise dubbed Dragon Lift 2017 on Wednesday, simulating a mass casualty situation for U.S. military personnel in a presumed wartime condition. Six American soldiers with simulated severe injuries were evacuated on [...]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A company of U.S. soldiers from the III Marine Expeditionary Force stationed in Okinawa is in South Korea for a joint winter season exercise with the Republic of Korea Marine Corps. According to the South Korean military, the marines from the two countries are currently engaged in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Republic of Korea Navy carried out its first maritime drill of 2017 on Monday with some 20 warships, including its newest 2,500-ton frigates, 1,000-ton patrol vessels, and 130-ton attack boats, participating. According to officials, the drills, which took place on all three – western, eastern, southern – coastal [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Pyongyang’s state media, Korean Central Television, reported Sunday that leader Kim Jong-un observed a military drill simulating an attack on a mock-up of Cheong Wa Dae, the South Korean presidential residence also known as the Blue House. Kim viewed the combat drill conducted by the North Korean army’s special [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s military on Friday released a white paper condemning South Korea and the United States for conducting joint military exercises, calling it a product of Washington’s “hideous” hostile policy toward Pyongyang. A mission of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) at the truce village of Panmunjom said that the [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A mock treatment drill on Tuesday at Ajou University Hospital in Suwon, just south of Seoul, tested the preparedness of staff and emergency responders should U.S. soldiers be injured by a North Korean attack. Staff of the hospital’s emergency room carried six injured U.S. soldiers on carts [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s largest annual combined military exercise with the United States, Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG), kicked off on Monday, with 25,000 American and 50,000 South Korean military personnel taking part. Nine South Korea allies – Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Italy, Philippines, the UK and New Zealand – that currently [...]