SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military said Thursday that it will carry out the largest-ever artillery drill near the border with North Korea to demonstrate its determination to retaliate against future provocations. The drill will take place in the afternoon, one day before South Korea marks the first anniversary of the North’s [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States are conducting a joint marine infiltration exercise, testing the interoperability of the two countries’ military forces for a potential assault against North Korea. The exercise took off on June 27 in the southeast coastal city of Pohang, with 800 South Korean and 500 [...]
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States, South Korea and Japan conducted their first joint missile-tracking exercise off Hawaii on Tuesday in an effort to better defend against threats from North Korea, officials said. The “Pacific Dragon” exercise came as the North has been carrying out a series of test firings of the [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Navy said Thursday it plans to join the Rim of the Pacific exercise (RIMPAC), a US-led biennial multinational naval drill, which will kick off late June, in a bid to boost the combat capability of its ships and crew. A group of about 700 servicemen from [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea, the United States and Japan will carry out their first joint anti-missile exercise in Hawaii in June to deal more effectively with North Korea’s ever-growing nuclear and missile threats, the defense ministry here said Monday. The trilateral missile defense exercise will take place on the sidelines of [...]