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N. Korea launches missiles in latest show of military, nuclear strength
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Samsung chief travels to France to encourage young talents
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Korean battery makers zero in on global commercial EV market
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Yoon leaves for Prague to cement nuclear energy push
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N. Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles: JCS
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4th case of lumpy skin disease confirmed in S. Korea
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Main opposition to railroad multiple contentious bills after Chuseok
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S. Korea to launch two more military spy satellites this year
South Korea plans to launch two more military spy satellites this year to better monitor North Korea, the state arms procurement agency said Monday, a move that could heat up the inter-Korean space race. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said two synthetic aperture radar satellites are scheduled to be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in April and November, respectively. Beginning with an electro-optical and infrared satellite in
Jan. 8, 2024
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N. Korea fires shells near western sea border for third day
North Korea has continued to fire shells near the western maritime border area for the third consecutive day since Friday, despite South Korea's repeated calls for an immediate cessation of such military action defying the Sept. 19, 2018, inter-Korean military agreement. The North Korean military fired around 90 shells north of South Korea's front-line island of Yeonpyeongdo from around 4 p.m. to 5:10 p.m. local time, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We issue a grave warni
Jan. 7, 2024
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Tensions rise as North Korea fires some 200 artillery shells near sea border
Tensions escalated on the Korean Peninsula on Friday morning as North Korea fired some 200 artillery shells into the sea north of the border. Immediately after the North fired the shells off its western coast, South Korean authorities issued evacuation orders on Yeonpyeong Island and Baekryeong Island. North Korea continued to fire shells for two hours until 11 a.m., the South Korean military said. The South’s military said no South Korean citizens or members of the armed forces were harme
Jan. 5, 2024
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S. Korea, US troops hold joint firing drills near border with N. Korea
South Korea and the United States have staged a joint live-fire exercise near the border with North Korea to bolster their joint combat readiness, the Army said Thursday. South Korea's Capital Mechanized Infantry Division and the US Stryker Brigade Combat Team from the 2nd Infantry Division were mobilized for the drills, which have been under way in the border city of Pocheon, 46 kilometers northeast of Seoul, since Dec. 29. It runs through Friday. The allies' first joint training of t
Jan. 4, 2024
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S. Korea, Poland clinch bilateral agreement on military airworthiness certification
South Korea and Poland have clinched a deal to launch a mutual recognition process for military airworthiness certification, Seoul's defense procurement agency said Tuesday. Representatives from Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration and the Polish defense ministry signed the bilateral agreement on airworthiness, a key measure of a plane's suitability for safe flight. Under the mutual recognition process, Warsaw will recognize Seoul's airworthiness certification f
Jan. 2, 2024
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Seoul hits back at Kim Jong-un: ‘Nuclear arms use will mean regime’s end’
South Korea on Monday returned North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s fresh threats of a nuclear attack with a warning that an attempt at such a move would result in the end of his regime. Shin Won-sik, the Minister of National Defense in Seoul, said in a written New Year’s message that Pyongyang will be made to face the realization that military threats against the country would mark “the beginning of its own downfall.” Late Sunday, the Defense Ministry responded to the North
Jan. 1, 2024
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Defense chief apologizes over Dokdo's description as disputed territory in education material
South Korea's defense chief has apologized over the description of the country's easternmost islets of Dokdo as a disputed territory in the military's newly published educational material for troops. On Thursday, the ministry began recalling the basic educational material after President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed immediate corrections. The material had listed Dokdo among disputes between major countries around the Korean Peninsula, such as China, Russia and Japan. "As I made t
Dec. 29, 2023
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Another Trump presidency won’t affect US-South Korea joint nuclear deterrence: defense chief
A change of administration in Washington is unlikely to sway South Korea-US joint deterrence of North Korea's nuclear threats, the national defense chief in Seoul said Thursday. Minister of National Defense Shin Won-sik told reporters in a press conference that he doesn’t think the bilateral cooperation on nuclear deterrence will depend on which administration gets elected in the US, “whether it be Biden’s or Trump’s.” Responding to a question on concerns that Donal
Dec. 29, 2023
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Defense Ministry under fire for labeling Dokdo ‘area of territorial dispute’
South Korea’s Defense Ministry came under heavy criticism Thursday for calling the nation’s easternmost sovereign islets of Dokdo as an “area of territorial dispute,” in its latest military education material for soldiers. President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered the ministry to “immediately correct” the labels in the textbook and said the “mistake should have never happened and should not be repeated.” Yoon’s orders came mere hours after the minist
Dec. 28, 2023
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Defense chief calls for vengeance in event of N. Korean provocation
South Korea's defense chief on Tuesday instructed Navy officials to mercilessly bury North Korean sailors at sea in the event of another North Korean provocation. Defense Minister Shin Won-sik made the remark as he inspected the new 2,800-ton ROKS Cheonan frigate, which was deployed for operations to the headquarters of the Navy's Second Fleet in Pyeongtaek, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, on Saturday. Shin told Navy officials and sailors to "mercilessly bury (the enemy) at sea if t
Dec. 26, 2023
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Seoul flags Kim Jong-un sympathizers as inside threats
The Ministry of National Defense in Seoul has characterized sympathizers of the North Korean regime threats within South Korea. In its latest version unveiled Tuesday, the Defense Ministry’s moral training program called sympathizers of the North Korean regime and its ideology “threats from inside that imperil the very foundations of liberal democracy.” The ministry said in the program that among South Korea, there existed forces that “sympathize with North Korea’s
Dec. 26, 2023
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Allies seek more cooperation in US arms maintenance
South Korea and the United States have agreed to make efforts to expand the participation of South Korean companies in the maintenance of US military equipment in the Indo-Pacific region, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The two sides discussed such efforts during logistics policy talks in San Diego last Wednesday, attended by Lee Gap-su, head of the ministry's logistics management bureau, and Christopher J. Lowman, US assistant secretary of defense for sustainment. During the talks, the
Dec. 26, 2023
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S. Korea stages independent tabletop exercise simulating NK nuclear attack
South Korea staged an independent tabletop exercise simulating a North Korean nuclear attack this year as part of efforts to hone response capabilities against the North's military threats, the defense ministry said Friday. The ministry noted the discussion-based exercise as one of its key accomplishments this year in a meeting presided over by Defense Minister Shin Won-sik to evaluate progress in the Defense Innovation 4.0 plan aimed at bolstering the country's defense capabilities. T
Dec. 22, 2023
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Army chief visits UAE, Qatar to deepen military, defense industry ties
South Korea's Army chief has made a weeklong trip to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar to expand military and defense industry cooperation with the Middle Eastern nations, his office said Friday. Gen. Park An-su arrived in the UAE on Saturday for a four-day trip and flew to Qatar on Tuesday for the second leg of his trip that ended earlier in the day. During his stay in the UAE, Park met with members of the Akh unit to encourage the South Korean contingent in the nation. Park also met with
Dec. 22, 2023
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Yoon calls for strengthening surveillance, reconnaissance against N. Korea
President Yoon Suk Yeol called Wednesday for strengthening surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to deal better with North Korea's nuclear and missile threats. Yoon made the remark as he presided over a meeting of the presidential defense innovation committee, noting the North's recent launches of a spy satellite and an intercontinental ballistic missile. "North Korea's provocations will continue according to their timetable, so we must always have a full readiness pos
Dec. 20, 2023
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US deploys B-1B bombers near Korean Peninsula after NK ICBM launch
US B-1B strategic bombers took part in a joint aerial exercise that South Korea, the United States and Japan held over waters around the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday in a show of force after North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. The exercise took place over waters east of the southern island of Jeju, where the air defense identification zones of South Korea and Japan overlap, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, amid heightened tensions in the wake of the North's f
Dec. 20, 2023
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Former USFK base in Incheon fully returned to S. Korea
The US military in South Korea fully returned its former base, Camp Market, to the Asian country Wednesday, the defense ministry said, as part of a broad relocation scheme to consolidate its bases across South Korea. The US Forces Korea handed over about 257,000 square meters of land in Camp Market near Seoul to South Korea, four years after returning some 216,000 square meters of land in the base in the first phase. The agreement was made in a meeting of the South Korea-US Status of Forces Agre
Dec. 20, 2023
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South Korea, Japan, US sharing North Korean missile data ‘24/7, all year round’
A trilateral scheme has kicked off for sharing data on North Korean missiles in real time among the defense chiefs of South Korea, Japan and the US. The Ministry of National Defense in Seoul said Tuesday its prelaunch inspections have found the missile data-sharing scheme to be “completely ready for operations” and currently “operating smoothly.” The Defense Ministry said the scheme would allow the three allies to detect North Korea’s missiles and share related info
Dec. 19, 2023
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S. Korean, US border guards resume armament in JSA
The security battalion comprising South Korean and US guard forces responsible for securing the Joint Security Area has reinstated armaments in response to North Korean soldiers carrying firearms across the inter-Korean border, according to the United Nations Command. The two Koreas had withdrawn firearms from the JSA in the truce village of Panmunjom in late October 2018, around a month after signing the Inter-Korean Comprehensive Military Agreement. The JSA is the sole location where soldiers
Dec. 19, 2023
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Yoon orders ‘instant response’ to North Korean provocations after ICBM firing
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday asked his national security team for an “instant and overpowering response to any North Korean provocations” following the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile by Pyongyang earlier in the day, which raised military tensions on the peninsula. The North’s fifth ICBM launch of the year was fired into the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on Monday morning, as previously predicted by a senior Seoul official last week. In a N
Dec. 18, 2023