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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is building a mobile long-range missile launcher system that can move along the country’s railroad tracks, the U.S.-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Wednesday, citing sources in the communist country. A North Korean resident in Kangwon Province told RFA that North Korean engineers have been working on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s central television broadcasting station, Korean Central Television, aired footage of the recent launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Thursday, which took place in waters near Sinpo at around 5:30 a.m. local time on August 24. The one-minute-47-second clip showed the launch of the missile from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in waters off its east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, in an apparent protest against the ongoing military drill between Seoul and Washington. The JCS said that the communist state launched the SLBM from waters [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Defense Ministry on Saturday ruled out any change in the site for deploying an advanced U.S. anti-missile system amid no signs of progress in ending the standoff with angry residents near the site. Residents in the country’s southeastern county of Seongju began protesting after South Korea and U.S. [...]
SEONGJU, South Korea, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Thousands of residents in the southern town of Seongju took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the government’s designation of the town as a site for the deployment of an advanced U.S. antimissile system. Some 5,000 residents of the town in North Gyeongsang Province staged a [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday warned it will take “physical action” against South Korea and the United States over the allies’ decision to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. North Korea’s military said it will strike the moment the two countries decide on where to place [...]
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 22 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea launched what appeared to be two Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) from its east coast early Wednesday morning, with the first test-firing assumed to have been unsuccessful, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. At around 5:58 a.m., North Korea fired off what is presumed to be a [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staffs revealed that a North Korean missile launch, which is assumed to have taken place at 05:20 local time, has failed. The launch presumably took place in the Wonsan area. Wonsan is a port city and naval base located on the eastern side of the [...]