SEOUL, Sept 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is capable of conducting another nuclear test at any time, South Korean intelligence officials said Monday, citing advanced preparations made by the reclusive country. “North Korea appears to be fully ready to carry out a nuclear test at its Punggye-ri test site on short notice. We are [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Friday said it “successfully” conducted a nuclear warhead explosion test, hours after an earthquake was detected near the country’s nuclear site in the northeastern region. “The nuclear test finally examined and confirmed the structure and specific features of movement of nuclear warhead that has been standardized [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea appears to have conducted its fifth nuclear test Friday, South Korea’s military said, a move that may be aimed at showing its defiance against the international community. A magnitude 5 earthquake was detected near North Korea’s nuclear site in its northeastern region, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff [...]
SEJONG, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s government said Monday that it will follow the due process of narrowing down different views to build a nuclear depository for high-level radioactive waste on its soil by 2028 in order to avoid a possible conflict over the issue. The government also decided to push to develop [...]
WASHINGTON, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is showing “high-level activity” at its nuclear test site, the 38 North website monitoring the communist nation said Monday. Commercial satellite imagery taken on July 7 of the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site shows what appears to be supplies and/or equipment stacked on the ground at the [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s nuclear security watchdog approved a plan to build two more nuclear reactors on Thursday, with their construction to begin immediately following the approval. The decision by the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission allows the state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) to add Shin Kori No. 5 [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and China will hold high-level talks this week on nuclear energy cooperation, the government said Wednesday. The bilateral Nuclear Power Joint Committee meeting, the 13th of its kind, is scheduled to open in Beijing on Thursday. In the two-day session, South Korea will be represented by Hong [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - North Koreans have shown enthusiastic support for the nuclear scientists and officials who contributed to the North’s latest nuclear test, the North’s media said Thursday. Waving decorative flowers on streets in Pyongyang, about 100,000 North Koreans cheered a procession of vehicles carrying the scientists and officials, according to the North’s [...]