* The Hamas missile fire was a reaction to the first two arrests. * Given the targets, & absence of casualties, the subsequent @idf strikes appear to be a decapture tit-for-tat exchange rather than the start of something more. * Buthow will Hamas react to the latest arrests
1 week agoNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the military parade
1 week agoMachines not missiles on show at North Korea parade. Pyongyang put tractors and fire engines on show rather than the usual tanks and missiles at a parade in the capital marking 73 years since the foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
2 week agoSouth Korea returns 109 more remains of Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War. The eighth repatriation ceremony is held at the Incheon International Airport
Yongbyon nuclear reactor appears to be in operation: IAEA report
3 week ago[email protected] authorizes a proposed Foreign Military Sale FMS to the Republic of Korea for their purchase of Joint Direct Attack Munition JDAM Guidance Kits and Fuzes for an estimated cost of $258 million
U.S. envoy to North Korea Sung Kim met with South Korean unification minister Lee In-young on Tuesday. Seoul's DPRK envoy Noh Kyu-duk met with Russian counterpart Igor Morgulov and urged Moscow to play a constructive role on DPRK issues
380 Afghans who worked for the Korean government in Afghanistan will arrive in South Korea tomorrow according to MOFA. They will not be entering as refugees, but as people of merit to the country says the Foreign Ministry
The Pentagon: We have reached out to South Korea and we are grateful to all our allies and partners for their assistance in the evacuations from Kabul
1 month agoUSAF RQ4 Global Hawk UAVGH000 active over South Korea
1 month agoVolexity has identified a North Korean APT known as InkySquid exploiting users using recent exploits for IE and Edge via Strategic Web Compromises
Disgraced former K-pop star Seungri was convicted of arranging prostitution and other charges stemming from a sex and drugs scandal and jailed for three years Thursday by a military court, officials said
Kim Yong Chol blasted Seoul for its "wrong choice" on Wednesday and warned of a "serious security crisis they will face
1 month agoNorth Korea warned the US and South Korea of a possible security crisis over their joint military drills
1 month agoSouth Korea recorded more than 2,000 new infections with the Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, an increase of nearly 50% from the previous day, which represents the largest daily toll, according to Yonhap News Agency. The agency added that 1,380 of the new infections were registered in the capital region, and the total deaths caused by the virus reached 2,134
Pyongyang warns Seoul of a serious security crisis against the backdrop of military exercises with US forces that began yesterday
The United States imposed sanctions against three organizations from Russia under the law on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. NPP Pulsar, Charter Green Light Moscow and Asia-Invest company
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilised the military to carry out relief work in areas recently hit by heavy rains
Secretary Antony Blinken:Good conversation with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Chung. I reaffirmed U.S. support for inter-Korean dialogue and engagement, and the importance of the U.S.-ROK Alliance for complete denuclearization and establishment of permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula
1 month agoNew Video in from North Korean TV overnight shows destruction, flooding, crop damage from recent heavy rain in South Hamgyong province
There is a "high probability" that North Korea will conduct a military provocation if US/SK military exercises goes ahead, says SK intelligence
1 month agoNewVideo in from North Korean television shows heavy rainfall, flooding in the country today. Rason recorded 37mm, North Hamgyong 18mm and Nampho 17mm up to 6pm
Despite North and South Korea's major announcement of restored communications, Pyongyang has yet to inform its citizens of the development. Experts believe that this could be to temper domestic expectations as the DPRK fights COVID19 and a food crisis
North Korea says restoration of cross-border hotline will play positive role in improving relations
Koreas reopen severed cross-border hotlines
Koreas' leaders did not discuss holding another inter-Korean summit: Cheong Wa Dae
2 month agoIn response to a question from @rongxiang on new emerging rifts between Japan and ROK, @StateDeptSpox says "a robust and effective trilateral relationship. is critical for shared security and common interests
South Korea will airlift all troops from a ship on anti-piracy patrol in the Middle East, according to the ROK defense ministry
The commander of the U.S. Strategic Command visited South Korea this week ahead of joint drills set for August. Adm. Charles Richard stressed on Wednesday that Washington is maintaining a "full readiness posture" to protect the ROK from armed attacks
2 month agoONN analyst Tianran Xu spotted new construction activity around North Korea's oldest carrier rocket & ballisticmissile launch site, the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground
