Seoul, May 11 (IANS) The South Korea’s unification ministry said on Monday that North Korea’s participation in Russia’s Victory Day parade was to display the two nations’ deepening military ties. “By marching in Russia’s Victory Day parade for the first time, North Korea showed off its military ties with Russia,” Yoon Min-ho, the ministry’s spokesperson, said at a regular briefing.On Saturday, North Korean troops marched at Red Square in Moscow, carrying their national flag alongside a banner ma…
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Seoul, April 20 (IANS) North Korea has tested cluster bombs in its latest launch of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, supervised by leader Kim Jong-un, state media reported Monday.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published the report of the launch of the Hwasong-11 Ra tactical ballistic missile a day after South Korea’s military detected multiple short-range ballistic missiles launched toward the East Sea at around 6:10 a.m. from North Korea’s Sinpho area.The KCNA said the purpose of t…
Seoul, April 16 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen an artillery firing contest on the birth anniversary of state founder Kim Il-sung, grandfather of the current leader Kim, the North’s state media reported Thursday.”Comrade Kim Jong-un … oversaw an artillery firing contest of artillery subunits under the large combined units of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in the western area organized on April 15, the Day of the Sun,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.It marks the …
Seoul, March 20 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a joint offensive drill featuring new main battle tanks equipped with an “active protection system,” saying ground troops will be equipped with the “superior” tank “extensively,” state media reported Friday.Kim oversaw “a coordinated offensive tactical drill of infantrymen’s and tankmen’s sub-units” a day earlier at the Pyongyang Training Base No. 60 under the Capital City Defence Corps of the Korean People’s Army, the Korean Central…
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, Jan 12 (IANS) The South Korean government will continue efforts to ease tensions and build trust with North Korea despite Pyongyang’s recent claim accusing Seoul of carrying out drone incursions into the country, the unification ministry said on Monday.Unification ministry spokesperson Yoon Min-ho made the remarks after President Lee Jae Myung ordered last week the creation of a joint military-police investigation team to look into the alleged drone incursions.On Sunday, Kim Yo-jong, the …
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…
Seoul, Jan 6 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited the construction site of a memorial for the North’s soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine, hailing their sacrifice as an ‘eternal cornerstone’ for Pyongyang, state media reported on Tuesday.Kim “visited the construction site of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations” in Pyongyang the previous day and dug the first shovelful of earth for the museum’s tree planting, the Korean Central News Ag…
Seoul, Jan 5 (IANS) North Korea test-launched hypersonic missiles in Pyongyang the previous day that successfully struck targets in the East Sea, with leader Kim Jong-un in attendance, state media reported on Monday.”A sub-unit under a major firing strike group of the Korean People’s Army conducted a missile launching drill” to evaluate the country’s war deterrence and the readiness of the weapon system, as well as to verify its capacity to fulfill missions, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)…