SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military on Monday raised the possibility that North Korea received technological assistance from Russia in developing a new air-to-air missile following the North’s test of the weapon last week. On Saturday, the North’s state media reported North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw anti-air combat and air raid [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has supervised combined tactical drills of special operations forces, stressing that the most “crucial” task for the North’s armed forces is to make full preparations for war, state media reported Wednesday. The combined tactical drills of special operations and tank subunits’ joint fire strike [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean families of those abducted by North Korea have sent large balloons filled with leaflets to the North, urging the regime to repatriate their loved ones, a group representing such families said Friday. Three giant latex balloons were flown northward from a South Korean border area in Gangwon [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top military officer on Thursday called for maintaining “overwhelming” readiness against North Korean threats, hours after Pyongyang’s launch of ballistic missiles into the East Sea, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. JCS Chairman Adm. Kim Myung-soo made the call as he visited the Air Force’s [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, in what could be a performance test aimed at exporting arms to Russia. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch, involving various types of multiple short-range ballistic missiles, [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A government delegation from Belarus will visit North Korea this week for talks on economic cooperation between the two nations, Pyongyang’s state-run media reported Tuesday. The delegation was scheduled to visit Pyongyang from Tuesday to Friday to hold a meeting of the intergovernmental joint committee for trade and economic [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 600 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Wednesday, adding that more than 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been also wounded. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) gave the assessment during a closed-door briefing for the [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry said Wednesday it has detected signs of North Korea and Russia launching the construction of a road bridge linking them across the Tumen River as the two nations have been deepening cooperation. In June last year, North Korea and Russia agreed to build the motorway [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.N. aviation agency has voiced grave concerns over North Korea’s recent jamming of GPS navigation signals and called for measures to prevent a recurrence, the South Korean foreign ministry said Monday. During its latest council session held in Montreal, Canada, from March 10 to April 4, the International [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea was behind a massive distribution of phishing emails to South Koreans between late last year and early this year, the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) said Tuesday. The agency said a North Korean hacking group sent 126,266 fake emails to 17,744 people in South Korea from last [...]