Tag: South Korea

Seoul: North Korea test-fired multiple projectiles believed to be ground-to-ship cruise missiles Thursday morning into its eastern waters, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The short-range surface-to-ship cruise missiles were launched from the city of Wonsan on Pyongyang’s east coast in the morning, the JCS said in a statement. The missiles flew about […]

Seoul: Amid reports of rival Samsung tying up with three South Korean banks for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based services, LG Electronics Inc on Friday launched its own mobile payment tool in the country to compete with “Samsung Pay”. LG Electronics said “LG Pay”, which is based on the Wireless Magnetic Communication technology, allows users to make payments […]

Seoul: North Korea on Sunday launched an unidentified projectile, just a week after Pyongyang carried out its most successful ballistic missile test, South Korean military has confirmed. “North Korea fired an unidentified projectile from a site in the vicinity of Pukchang in Pyeongannam-do, South Pyeongan province, and it flew for about 500 km,” Yonhap news […]

Seoul: US President Donald Trump is looking forward to working closely with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in and is willing to make peace with North Korea through engagement if the conditions are right, according to a top Seoul envoy. Trump made the remarks on Wednesday during a 15-minute meeting with special envoy Hong Seok-hyun […]

Seoul/Washington: North Korea on Sunday launched a ballistic missile which flew around 700 km, the South Korean Joints Chief of Staff (JCS) said. This is the first provocative move from North Korea since South Korea appointed Moon Jae-in as the country’s new President on Wednesday. The US calculated that the missile landed in water 60 […]

Seoul: Moon Jae-in was sworn in as the new South Korean president in the Parliament Building, hours after winning a landslide victory in the five-way presidential race, a media report said on Wednesday. Moon’s term as the country’s new head of state began only one day after the nation held the unprecedented presidential by-election, Yonhap […]

Pyongyang: North Korea on Tuesday said the US military has conducted a nuclear bomb dropping drill in South Korea and called it an “extremely reckless” move presaging a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula. “On May 1, the US imperialists committed one more military provocation of conducting a nuclear bomb dropping drill against the major […]

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has threatened to destroy USS Michigan, an American naval submarine, if it gets any closer to the Communist nation’s waters. The Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine is currently docked at a naval base in South Korea’s Busan, where it was recently joined by the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group, the […]

Seoul: South Korea registered a trade surplus of $13.3 billion in April, a data released on Monday by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said. This was when the country’s exports, the main engine of its economy, increased for the sixth consecutive month, Efe news reported. In addition, South Korea’s trade balance in April […]

Seoul: Part of the elements of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) missile system has been deployed in South Korea, its Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Without elaborating, the Ministry said in a statement that part of the THAAD battery was installed in the southeastern part of the country in a bid to […]

Seoul: South Korea on Monday announced it has developed a new radar system to detect North Korean artillery at the border, one of the greatest threat the country faces in the event of conflict with its neighbour. The system, called counter-artillery detection radar-II, will start operating from 2018, announced the South Korean Defence Acquisition Programme […]

Seoul: US Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday arrived on a three-day visit to South Korea to reaffirm the robust security alliance and warn against North Korea’s possible provocation, officials said. After landing at a US airbase in Pyeongtaek, 70 km from here, Pence headed to a Seoul national cemetery in a gesture to highlight […]

Seoul: Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was arrested early on Friday raising a possibility for her to serve jail term over corruption allegations, a media report said. A judge in the Seoul Central District Court said in a statement that Park’s major criminal allegations could be justified and concerns remained over a possibility of her […]

Srinagar: Six foreign tourists, who had lost their way in the city, were rescued by the police in the early hours today from a mob which allegedly mistook them for braid choppers. The tourists — three Australians and one person each from England, South Korea and Ireland — were on their way to Srinagar from […]

Seoul: With used cigarette butts, South Korean scientists have developed a high-performing material that can be used to store energy and at the same free the environment from the toxicity of the cigarette filters. The new material could be integrated into computers, handheld devices, electric vehicles and wind turbines to store energy, the study noted. […]