Tag: South Korea
BRIEFS
South Korean President Warns DPRK Against Seventh Nuclear Test
During an interview with Reuters, South Korean President Yoon...
North Korea Launches Second Missile
South Korean media indicating that a second unspecified missile...
North Korea Launches Another Missile
South Korean media outlet Yonhap has reported that North...
UPDATE: South Korea Launches Missiles into Ocean in Response to North Korea
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff has announced that...
STORIES
South Korea Deploys Stealth Jets After Detecting N. Korean Warplanes
The US-Korea "Vigilant Storm" exercises this year are the biggest ever, including 140 South Korean and over 100 American jets, and Pyongyang claims they are in reaction mode to this provocation and threat to its security. The north has responded to the increasing hazardous muscle-flexing during these maneuvers by...
North Korea Fires Multiple Missiles, Several Land Within South Korean Territorial Waters
At approximately 2000 EST, air raid sirens sounded on the South Korean island community of Ulleung-gun. The South Korean and Japanese militaries had confirmed within five minutes of launch that a probable ballistic missile, “possibly flying an irregular trajectory”, was on course to hit the South Korean island community....
ROK Navy Pledges Sweeping Structure Reforms
During the National Assembly National Defense Committee audit held at the Naval Headquarters in Gyeryongdae, the South Korean Navy and Marine Corps announced sweeping reforms to the structure of their force.
The most significant is that they will reduce from three numbered fleets to two and establish the Marine Unmanned...
North Korea Fires 170 Artillery Shells into 2018 Buffer Zone
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At approximately 1900 EST, North Korea fired about 170 artillery shells into the 2018 Buffer Zone. 130 shells were fired into the Yellow Sea and 40 were fired into the Sea of Japan. This is in addition to the aircraft deployment and ballistic missile launch earlier today.
South Korea has...
North Korea Resumes Ballistic Missile Testing
The associated press has reported North Korea fired a “ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, in a resumption of weapons tests that came as the United States and its allies are focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” The missile testing was the “eighth of its...
President Moon Jae-In of South Korea Voices Concern Of A ‘New Cold War’
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday expressed his concern about a "new Cold War" and nationalism seeking to gain hegemony by force, as Russia pressed ahead with its invasion of Ukraine despite global condemnation and sanctions.
"The international order is fluctuating amid the Covid crisis," Moon said. "State-centered nationalism, which seeks to gain hegemony by force, is...
