SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has launched a total of 31 ballistic missiles in the past five years under Kim Jong-un, twice the number of missiles test-fired when his late father was in power, the defense ministry here said Wednesday. North Korea has test-fired 16 short-range Scuds with a range of 300 [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will again check the electromagnetic waves coming from the powerful radar used in the advanced U.S. anti-missile system to help allay fears about the health risks associated with the equipment, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The move comes after the Ministry of National Defense carried out a [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state news agency, reported Monday that the country opened a new Central Zoo and Nature Museum in its capital city Pyongyang on July 24. The KCNA revealed that the Nature Museum covers an area of approximately 35,000 square meters, and houses [...]
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. [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States on Friday held a meeting of their top air force commanders to discuss the allies’ combined air power operations, according to the Air Force. Some 100 senior commanders from the two allies attended the 2016 Air Bose Conference and talked about ways to [...]
GIMPO, South Korea, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A civic group comprised of North Korean defectors on Friday said it sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets via balloons across the inter-Korean border earlier this week, amid escalating military tensions in the Korean Peninsula. The Fighters for Free North Korea said it sent some 300,000 leaflets from Gimpo, just [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye on Thursday defended the recent decision by Seoul and Washington to deploy an advanced U.S. antimissile system here, stressing she won’t bow to “criticism and resistance” to protect the nation. Presiding over a session of the National Security Council, Park vowed to devise “all necessary measures” [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will respond firmly to all North Korean threats made against the deployment of the U.S. antimissile system on its soil, the government said Friday, making clear that the move is designed to counter Pyongyang’s evolving nuclear and missile capabilities. The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry [...]
PAJU/YEONCHEON, South Korea, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Security tourism in South Korea’s northwestern border areas has suffered a blow due to cooling inter-Korean relations amid a series of incessant North Korean provocations, including missile tests. The number of tourists visiting security attractions, including observatories and underground tunnels dug by the North, has been decreasing every [...]
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 [...]