BEIJJING, China (AFP) — The deployment of a US missile defense system in South Korea would “seriously damage” regional security in northeast Asia, China said Friday, adding it strongly opposed the move. The deployment of the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) system announced by the US and South Korea would “seriously damage the strategic security interests of countries in the region including China”, Beijing’s foreign ministry said in a statement posted online. “China strongly […]
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US to deploy advanced missile defense system in S.Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The US and South Korea announced Friday that they had reached an agreement to deploy an advanced missile defence system in the South in the face of growing threats from the North. The two allies began talks on deploying the US THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) system to the Korean peninsula in February when the North launched a long-range rocket following a fourth nuclear test in January. “Based on these […]
S. Korea welcomes US blacklist for N. Korea leader
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Washington’s move to place North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on its sanctions blacklist for the first time was welcomed by South Korea Thursday, with Seoul saying it would highlight human rights abuses in the hermit state. The US said Kim and 10 other top officials also blacklisted were behind widespread abuses including extrajudicial killings, forced labour and torture in the country’s system of prison camps for political detainees that has […]
US, S. Korea, Japan hold first anti-N. Korea missile drill
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — South Korea, Japan and the United States held an unprecedented trilateral missile defense exercise on Tuesday, aimed at countering the growing threat from nuclear-armed North Korea which denounced it as a “military provocation.” The drill in waters off Hawaii came less than a week after North Korea flight-tested a powerful new medium-range ballistic missile that leader Kim Jong-Un hailed as a strike threat to US military bases across the Pacific. […]
North Korea fires second missile after first launch fails – South Korea
(REUTERS) North Korea launched what appeared to be a second intermediate-range Musudan missile on Wednesday morning after another launch hours earlier failed, South Korea’s military said. It was not immediately clear if the second launch, about two hours after the first, was successful. The first missile was launched from the east coast city of Wonsan, a South Korean official said, the same area where previous tests of intermediate-range missiles were conducted, possibly using mobile launchers. […]
Samsung to buy US cloud computing startup
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Samsung Electronics said Thursday it had agreed to buy US cloud computing company Joyent — the latest in a series of start-up acquisitions aimed at strengthening the South Korean giant’s software capacity. The purchase of the San Francisco-based firm would provide Samsung with its own cloud platform to support its main mobile business and connect with Samsung household appliances such as TVs, refrigerators and air conditioners, a company statement said. […]
S. Korea holds navy drill near disputed border with North
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Thursday kicked off a live-fire naval exercise near its disputed sea border with North Korea — a move likely to fan already elevated military tensions with Pyongyang. The three-day exercise in the Yellow Sea is aimed at practising responses to simulated incursions by North Korean vessels and aircraft, the South’s navy said in a statement. The manoeuvres will involve 20 naval ships, including an Aegis destroyer, as […]
Prosecutors raid Daewoo Shipbuilding over fraud allegations
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday raided Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), one of South Korea’s three giant shipbuilders, as they probe a suspected accounting fraud, the company said. Some 150 staff from the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office stormed the DSME headquarters in Seoul and its Okpo shipyard on the southern island of Geoje. “This morning, they started collecting accounting books, computer hard disks and other documents,” a spokesman of the company […]
S. Korea calls for Nissan to face charges over emissions
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) 6/7/2016 —South Korea has called for car giant Nissan to face criminal charges for allegedly manipulating emissions data on a popular sports utility vehicle, weeks after Seoul slapped the firm with a fine over the issue. The environment ministry called on state prosecutors to probe Nissan Korea after saying tests had shown an emission defeat system on the Qashqai model that made it appear to be less polluting than it really was. It […]
N. Korea accuses South of abducting more restaurant staff
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has again accused the South of “premeditated” abduction, following the latest defection of North Korean staff working at a Pyongyang-run restaurant in China. The three North Koreans arrived in Seoul on Wednesday — the second such group defection this year after a dozen employees of another restaurant in China defected to the South in April. “This incident, too, was the organised and premeditated abduction by gangsters of the […]
S. Korea rejects North’s military talks offer
SEOUL , South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Monday rejected the latest proposal by the North to hold military talks, saying Pyongyang first needed to take steps towards abandoning its nuclear arsenal. The North’s leader Kim Jong-Un offered the military dialogue during a speech to a recent congress of the ruling Workers’ Party — the first event of its kind for more than 35 years. North Korean military later urged Seoul to accept the […]
US, S. Korea, Japan to hold joint drill against N. Korea
SEOUL , South Korea (AFP) — South Korea, Japan and the United States will hold their first anti-missile drills together next month to guard against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, a Seoul official said Monday. The drill will be held in the waters near Hawaii on June 28, said an official at the Seoul’s defense ministry, ahead of the US-led Rim of the Pacific naval exercises. “The training will involve detecting and tracing an imaginary […]
