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A former South Korean defence minister and three other senior officials who served in the previous Moon Jae-in administration have been accused of leaking intelligence on a US-built missile system to activists and China. The state auditor alleged that Jeong Kyeong-doo, ex-national security adviser Chung Eui-yong and two high-ranking officers passed information on the Terminal […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un urged the country’s military to improve capabilities for fighting a war, state media KCNA said on Monday, amid suggestions that Pyongyang may dispatch as many as 100,000 troops to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine. Kim delivered the speech to a conference of battalion commanders and political instructors held in Pyongyang […]
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has dusted off his golf clubs in an attempt to forge a bond with President-elect Donald Trump, an avid lover of the game. The presidential office said on Tuesday that Yoon began practising the game for the first time in eight years in preparation for a possible round of golf […]
Donald J. Trump’s second term brings uncertainty to the Korean Peninsula as nuclear tensions run high. North Korea’s leader may see a chance to re-engage. Source link
The past few weeks have been marked by a flurry of footage and intelligence tidbits revealing North Korea’s deployment of its forces to Russia. Initial incredulity on the South Koreans’ part gradually turned into consternation, as clips circulating online showed scrawny North Koreans, uttering undeniably fluent Korean, in Russia. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) […]
Donald Trump has been declared the winner of the United States’ 2024 presidential election, meaning the controversial ex-president will once again occupy the White House starting in 2025. U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific, who had a tumultuous time during Trump’s first term, were quick to respond with congratulations and insistence that bilateral relationships will be […]
As Russia’s arms export capacity narrows due to its war in Ukraine, nations such as South Korea, Italy, and France have used the shifting global security dynamics to draw in international buyers and aggressively expand their defence export markets. The ascent of South Korea as a significant player in the global arms export market is […]
South Korea should be wary of intelligence manipulation for political reasons or hasty retaliatory action against the North for its alleged involvement in the Ukraine war, critics warn, with Washington yet to confirm if Pyongyang had deployed troops to join their Russian counterparts. The comments come as Seoul reportedly considered sending a team of intelligence […]
Recently on October 11, the 19th East Asia Summit (EAS) was held in Vientiane, the capital city of Laos. This gave the newly-minted Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba an opportunity to meet his EAS counterparts. It also marked his first overseas trip after taking over as the prime minister on October 1. The East Asia […]