Posted on Dec 21st SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast on Dec. 19, the same day it announced the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said. The agency quoted an unnamed government official as saying the missile launch was unrelated to the announcement [...]

Posted on Dec.21st SEOUL — In the wake of leader Kim Jong Il’s death, North Korea is likely to shift for the first time to a collective leadership model, with a small circle of older caretakers advising — and sharing power with — untested heir apparent Kim Jong Eun, Seoul’s intelligence agency said this week. The [...]

Posted on Dec 14th INCHEON, Dec. 14 (Yonhap) — Hundreds of fellow officers and family members gathered at the Incheon Coast Guard pier on Wednesday to mourn an officer killed during an operation to arrest the crew of a Chinese vessel illegally fishing in the Yellow Sea.    A casket carrying the officer’s body arrived [...]

Posted on Dec 14th CANBERRA, Australia — The South Korea and Australian defense ministers signed an agreement Wednesday to deepen military cooperation between the two countries through increased joint exercises. The move comes after the United States announced last month that it will increase its military presence in Australia and conduct more joint exercises across [...]

Posted on Dec 8th SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Yonhap) — South Korea and the United States resumed talks Tuesday on revising a bilateral pact that defines the boundaries of the Asian country’s use of nuclear energy, with Seoul aiming to gain concessions in the area, officials said. The discussions in Seoul were led by Park Ro-byug, [...]

Posted on Nov 23th YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — South Korean attack helicopters screamed through the skies above the Koreas’ disputed Yellow Sea waters Wednesday in a display of power exactly a year after North Korea launched a deadly artillery attack on a front-line island. Residents of Yeonpyeong Island laid flowers at statues to commemorate [...]

Posted on Nov 22th BEIJING – Table tennis will help to foster goodwill for the second time in two decades between the Democratic People Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK), with their players competing alongside each other at an international tournament starting on Tuesday. Paired in doubles teams, players from the [...]

Posted on Nov 22th BEIJING, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s top official in charge of relations with North Korea on Tuesday asked China to quickly send North Korean defectors to South Korea. Tens of thousands of North Korean defectors are believed to be hiding in China, hoping to travel to Thailand or other Southeast [...]

Posted on Nov 18th North Korea has threatened to dispose of South Korean companies’ assets on its soil outside Mount Kumgang, too, and demanded compensation for economic losses incurred by Seoul’s halting of all cross-border trade following the North’s deadly attack last year, sources said Friday. The North’s latest warnings against the South Korean companies [...]

Posted on Nov 16th South Korean government sources are quoted as saying North Korea’s military recently tested, in the Yellow Sea, new missiles designed to attack ships. The development is viewed as a new threat to South Korea’s patrol ships and destroyers operating in tense waters off the west coast off the Korean peninsula. North [...]