Seoul, April 8 (IANS) North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, in a back-to-back launch that came after President Lee Jae Myung expressed regret over drone flights by individuals into the North.The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the missiles launched from the Wonsan area in the North at around 8:50 a.m. They flew some 240 kilometres. It marked the North’s fourth confirmed ballistic missile launch this y…
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Seoul, April 7 (IANS) The unification ministry of South Korea on Tuesday assessed North Korea’s swift response to President Lee Jae Myung’s expression of regret over drone flights by South Korean individuals as “meaningful progress” moving forward the establishment of peace and coexistence on the Korean Peninsula. Late Monday, Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, issued a statement that said her brother assessed Lee as “frank and broad-minded,” some 10 hours after…
Seoul, March 23 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on his reelection as chairman of the State Affairs Commission, expressing hope for stronger bilateral relations, the Kremlin said Monday.According to the North’s Korean Central News Agency, Kim was reappointed to the highest post of the commission at the first session of the Supreme People’s Assembly held on Sunday.It marked his third consecutive term since the commission was created in 2016…
Seoul, March 23 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was reappointed as president of the state affairs commission at the first session of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) after last month’s ruling party congress, state media reported Monday.Kim was reappointed president of the state affairs commission on the first day of the first session of the 15th SPA, the Korean Central New Agency (KCNA) said.During the meeting, Jo Yong-won, known as one of Kim’s closest aides, was also elected chairman…
Seoul, Feb 28 (IANS) Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was confirmed to have taken the post of director of the general affairs department of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), according to state media on Saturday.Kim was promoted to a party department chief at the WPK’s plenary meeting on Monday, held in the midst of the ninth party congress that concluded a weeklong run on Wednesday, but details of her official title were not disclosed at that time.But …
Seoul, Feb 24 (IANS) The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Yo-jong, has been promoted to department head at the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea during the ongoing party congress, state media reported on Tuesday.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published a press release from the first plenary meeting of the ninth central committee of the ruling party, naming Kim Yo-jong as one of the 17 newly elected department directors of the party’s new central committee.She was previ…
Seoul, Feb 19 (IANS) South Korea’s defence ministry said on Thursday that it will push for reinstating a no-fly zone under the suspended 2018 inter-Korean military pact in a way that does not affect a military readiness posture. The ministry also said it is in consultations with the United States over Seoul’s push to partially restore the military pact, a day after Unification Minister Chung Dong-young disclosed the government’s plan, Yonhap News Agency reported.Chung said Wednesday the governme…
Seoul, Feb 19 (IANS) The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on Thursday she ‘highly appreciates’ South Korea’s pledge to prevent a recurrence of drone incursions into the North, vowing to step up the country’s vigilance along the border with the South. Kim Yo-jong, a party vice department director, issued the statement via the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) a day after Unification Minister Chung Dong-young expressed ‘regret’ over drone incursions into the North and announ…
Seoul, Jan 21 (IANS) A joint team of South Korean police and military investigators on Wednesday raided the homes and offices of three civilian suspects accused of flying drones into North Korea, police said.The team carried out search and seizure warrants against the three civilian suspects on charges of violating the Aviation Safety Act at 8 a.m., according to the National Police Agency’s National Office of Investigation.The joint investigation was launched last week after North Korea claimed …
Seoul, Jan 18 (IANS) A civilian suspect accused of making a drone allegedly flown into North Korea previously worked at the South Korean presidential office under former President Yoon Suk Yeol, sources said on Sunday. The man in his 30s, who was questioned Friday by a joint military-police investigation team, had monitored news reports while working under the spokesperson’s office at Yoon’s presidential office, according to sources familiar with the matter, Yonhap News Agency reported.He is kno…