A collision between a Japanese destroyer and a South Korean container ship in the waters off western Japan caused severe damage to both vessels. The NHK World reports, “Japan’s Defense Ministry says the 5,200 ton Kurama and the 7,400 ton South Korean-registered Carina Star collided shortly before 8 PM on Tuesday, Japan Time, in the [...]
The Local reports as follows: “A former South Korean air force major-general was arrested on Friday on charges of leaking classified military information to Swedish defence and aviation company Saab, officials said.” The information was alleged to have been to the Swedish company during a nine month period ending earlier this year. full story–>
[The Korea Herald]– North Korea agreed Tuesday to South Korea’s proposal for talks later this week on preventing floods of cross-border rivers and resuming reunions of separated families, government officials in Seoul said, Yonhap News reported. The North’s latest reconciliatory gesture comes just one day after it abruptly test-fired five short-range missiles in the East [...]
[Yonhap News]– North Korea has received some 2.7 trillion won (US$2.29 billion) from South Korea and international partners since 1994 in return for false promises to scrap its nuclear program, according to a lawmaker on Monday. For the Geneva Framework Agreement reached in 1994, the North received $1.98 billion worth of support from South Korea, [...]
[RIA Novosti]– A project to pump Russian gas to South Korea through a North Korean pipeline has been suspended due to the deterioration in inter-Korean relations, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday. Choo Kang-soo, head of South Korea’s state-run energy company Kogas, said Seoul would not build the pipeline through North Korea [...]
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak has offered North Korea a “grand bargain” to give up its nuclear program in return for aid and security guarantees, warning Pyongyang the proposal may be its last chance. The conservative leader, speaking in New York ahead of a United Nations summit, criticized the approach of past six-nation talks on [...]
Senior North Korean envoys on Sunday met South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak for the first time since he took office 18 months ago, raising hopes of an end to high tensions on the peninsula. A presidential official confirmed the meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, which began at 9:00am (0001 GMT) and lasted [...]
