Seoul, Jan 22 (IANS) South Korea’s Unification Minister Chung Dong-young on Thursday committed to seeking a breakthrough in resuming exchanges with North Korea, reaffirming Seoul’s policy of reengaging the regime to promote peace. “By designing mutually beneficial, multilateral and innovative cooperative projects, the government will find a path to resuming inter-Korean exchanges,” Chung said during a meeting of the South-North Korea Exchanges and Cooperation Support Association, Yonhap News Age…
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Seoul, Jan 11 (IANS) The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for Seoul to provide a detailed explanation about recent drone incursions, claiming that the drones from South Korea clearly violated the North’s airspace. Kim Yo-jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, made the remarks as South Korea’s Defence Ministry denied Pyongyang’s claim about the drone incursions from the South’s military, raising the possibility that …
Seoul, Jan 10 (IANS) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday ordered a prompt investigation into alleged drone incursions into North Korea, warning that such acts would constitute “a grave crime” threatening peace on the Korean Peninsula and national security if confirmed. North Korea claimed earlier in the day that South Korea had infringed on its sovereignty with drone incursions last September and again earlier this week, but Seoul’s defence ministry rejected Pyongyang’s accusations….
Seoul, Jan 10 (IANS) South Korea’s defence chief on Saturday denied North Korea’s claims that its drones infiltrated into the North in September last year and earlier this week, saying the drones in question were not models operated by the South Korean military. North Korea claimed earlier in the day that South Korea infringed on its sovereignty with drone incursions, saying that Seoul should be ready to “pay a high price” for what it called a provocation.In response to an inquiry by Yonhap News…
Seoul, Jan 10 (IANS) North Korea claimed on Saturday that South Korea infringed on its sovereignty with drone incursions in September last year and earlier this week, saying that Seoul should be ready to ‘pay a high price’ for what it called a provocation.But South Korea’s defence ministry rejected Pyongyang’s claim, saying the South’s military did not operate drones on the dates asserted by the North.A spokesperson of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army issued a statement denouncing S…