SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States staged combined air drills, involving U.S. B-1B strategic bombers, on Sunday, Seoul’s military said, as North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile the previous day. During the drills, F-35A stealth fighters and F-15K jets from the South flew together with U.S. F-16 fighters [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Sunday it has fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a lofted angle in a “sudden launching” drill aimed at ensuring the country’s powerful nuclear deterrent. “The drill was suddenly organized without previous notice under an emergency firepower combat standby order given at dawn of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a football match with his daughter in celebration of his late father Kim Jong-il’s birthday, state media reported Saturday. Kim and his daughter, known as Ju-ae, watched the match between officials of the Cabinet and the Ministry of National Defence on Friday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States will stage a combined military exercise at the Pentagon next week under the scenario of nuclear use by North Korea, Seoul’s defense ministry said Friday. Led by the allies’ Deterrence Strategy Committee, the discussion-based table-top exercise (TTX) is set to take place Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Tuesday unveiled the designs of a new stamp featuring the daughter of the North’s leader Kim Jong-un, known as Ju-ae, for the first time. The stamp designs uploaded on the website of the North’s Korea Stamp Corp. show photos of the North’s leader and his daughter [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for bolstering the country’s military strength at an unprecedented pace, during a photo session with the participants of a military parade held earlier this week, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday. Speaking on Thursday, Kim stressed that the prosperity of the North depends on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday announced its first independent sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s cryptocurrency theft and other illicit cyber activities. South Korea has decided to impose its own sanctions on four North Korean tech experts and seven organizations under the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), the country’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has staged a massive military parade in Pyongyang to mark the 75th founding anniversary of its armed forces, its state media confirmed Thursday, describing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on display as representing the country’s “maximum nuclear attack capabilities.” Its leader Kim Jong-un attended the nighttime event, held [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of 10 South Koreans see the need for Seoul to independently pursue its own nuclear weapons development program, a survey showed Monday, amid concerns over escalating military threats from Pyongyang and a lack of trust in denuclearization negotiations with North Korea. According to the Gallup Korea poll [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has released a pictorial book of gifts given to its late leader Kim Jong-il from foreign leaders and governments, including a basketball signed by former NBA superstar Michael Jordan, a Pyongyang propaganda website showed Monday. The 216-page book carries photos of various presents gifted to Kim, the [...]