Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
January 2025 - South Korea Special Weapons News
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- Readout of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's Call With Republic of Korea Acting Minister of National Defense Kim Seon-ho DoD 31 Jan 2025
- Joint Statement on Myanmar Australia DFAT 01 Feb 2025 -- Four years on from the military coup in Myanmar: joint statement by Australia, Canada, the European Union, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Pevkur in Seoul: Estonia is interested in strengthening defence cooperation with South Korea Estonia MoD 27 Jan 2025 -- Minister of Defence Hanno Pevkur met today in Seoul with acting Minister of National Defense Seon-ho Kim to discuss regional security around Estonia and South Korea, as well as bilateral defence cooperation.
- North Korea tests cruise missile; warns US, South Korea on 'provocation' Radio Free Asia 27 Jan 2025 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the successful test of a cruise missile system, North Korea's state media reported, as it accused the United States and South Korea of provocations and vowed the "toughest counteraction" to defend itself.
- South Korean Prosecutors Request Another Extension of President's Detention Sputnik 25 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's prosecutor's office on Saturday requested another extension of President Yoon Suk-yeol's detention after a Seoul court rejected their previous request, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
- Press Statement Issued by Chief of Foreign News Section of DPRK Foreign Ministry KCNA 25 Jan 2025 -- The chief of the Foreign News Section of the Department of Press and Information of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a press statement titled "The U.S. and the ROK will never evade the responsibility for the aggravation of regional situation to be entailed by the enhanced regular visibility of military provocations", which said:
- Vietnam, South Korea finalizing $300m howitzer deal: Korean media Radio Free Asia 24 Jan 2025 -- Vietnam and South Korea are close to wrapping-up a US$300 million arms deal, the first between the two countries, Korean media reported.
- North Korea 'accelerating' preparations for more troops to Kursk: Seoul Radio Free Asia 23 Jan 2025 -- North Korea is accelerating preparations to send more troops to Russia amid an increasing number of casualties, South Korea said on Friday, while Ukraine said the North's additional support would mainly include missile and artillery troops.
- Analysts: China normalizing its claims to maritime zone shared with South Korea VOA 23 Jan 2025 -- South Korea should increase efforts to prevent China from normalizing its claims to sovereignty over a disputed maritime area in waters the two countries share, analysts say.
- Secretary Rubio's Call with ROK Foreign Minister Cho US Dept. of State 22 Jan 2025
- Yoon attends constitutional court hearing of impeachment trial in person Global Times 21 Jan 2025 -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol attended the constitutional court's hearing of his impeachment trial on Tuesday, denying all charges relevant to his martial law imposition. It marked the first time in the country's modern history that an impeached president attended the court hearing in person, Xinhua reported.
- Trump calls North Korea 'nuclear power,' Seoul disagrees Radio Free Asia 21 Jan 2025 -- U.S. President Donald Trump described North Korea as a "nuclear power," raising the prospect of a change in the long-held U.S. policy of denying North Korea recognition as a nuclear weapons state and insisting that it abandon its weapons program.
- S. Korean president attends warrant hearing on whether to be detained for up to 20 days People's Daily 18 Jan 2025 -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Saturday attended the warrant hearing on whether to be detained for up to 20 days.
- NATO takes stock of cooperation with Japan and the Republic of Korea NATO 17 Jan 2025 -- NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Ambassador Boris Ruge, visited the Republic of Korea and Japan, from 14 to 16 January 2025.
- South Korean president skips questioning for second day after arrest Press TV 16 Jan 2025 -- Yoon Suk Yeol, who became the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested Wednesday, has not attended a second day of questioning about his bid to impose martial law.
- US experts question reason for probe of loudspeaker broadcasts into North Korea VOA 16 Jan 2025 -- A move by South Korean opposition leaders to launch an independent probe of embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over Seoul's use of loudspeaker broadcasts into North Korea is raising questions among some U.S. experts about the future direction of Seoul's approach toward Pyongyang.
- Readout of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti's Meeting with Republic of Korea (ROK) Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Yang Yong-mo US Navy Press Release 15 Jan 2025
- South Korea, Japan, US hold air drills following North's missile tests Radio Free Asia 15 Jan 2025 -- South Korea, Japan and the United States held their first combined air drills of the year on Wednesday, a day after North Korea launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea's defense ministry said.
- Chinese FM spokesperson responds to arrest of South Korean President Yoon Global Times 15 Jan 2025 -- When asked to comment on the arrest of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, Guo Jiakun, Chinese FM spokesperson said he won't comment on the internal affairs of South Korea. China and South Korea are important neighbors and cooperative partners. China is willing to work with South Korea to jointly promote the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations, said Guo.
- Yoon Defends Arrest as 'Voluntary' to Prevent Bloodshed - Reports Sputnik 15 Jan 2025 -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday called his arrest a "voluntary" appearance for questioning intended to "avoid bloodshed," Yonhap News Agency reported.
- South Korean President Yoon arrested over failed martial law bid Press TV 15 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's authorities have arrested the country's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his last month's failed martial law declaration.
- S. Korean president arrested in residence over martial law imposition People's Daily 15 Jan 2025 -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was arrested in presidential residence Wednesday, becoming the country's first sitting president to be kept in custody over his short-lived martial law imposition.
- Yoon becomes first sitting president of S.Korea arrested Global Times 15 Jan 2025 -- When asked to comment on the arrest of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, Guo Jiakun, Chinese FM spokesperson, said "We don't comment on the ROK's (Republic of Korea) domestic affairs. China and the ROK are important neighbors and cooperation partners. China stands ready to work with the ROK for the sound and steady growth of bilateral relations."
- North Koreans in China bewildered by arrest of South Korean president Radio Free Asia 15 Jan 2025 -- North Korean trade officials stationed in China were shocked when they heard that South Korean police arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul on Wednesday, two such officials told Radio Free Asia.
- South Korea's Yoon detained, a first for country VOA 14 Jan 2025 -- South Korean authorities detained impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol early Wednesday, the country's anti-corruption agency announced, following a tense, five-hour standoff at his heavily guarded mountain compound in Seoul.
- South Korea says North launched several missiles off east coast Press TV 14 Jan 2025 -- The South Korean military says North Korea has launched several short-range missiles off its east coast.
- South Korea says 300 North Korean soldiers killed in Ukraine VOA 13 Jan 2025 -- Around 300 North Korean soldiers have been killed and 2,700 others injured in Russia's war in Ukraine, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers in a closed briefing Monday.
- S. Korean president not to attend 1st hearing of impeachment trial for safety concerns People's Daily 13 Jan 2025 -- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will not attend the first hearing of his impeachment trial, scheduled for Tuesday, for safety concerns, Yoon's defense counsel said Sunday.
- South Korea, Japan stress importance of trilateral ties with US Radio Free Asia 13 Jan 2025 -- The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan stressed the importance of trilateral ties with the United States at a news conference on Monday during a two-day visit to Seoul by Takeshi Iwaya, the first visit to the country by a Japanese foreign minister in nearly seven years.
- Joint Press Statement on the Fourth Nuclear Consultative Group Meeting DoD 10 Jan 2025 -- The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) convened the fourth Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) in Washington, D.C. on January 10, 2025. The NCG is an enduring bilateral consultative body to strengthen extended deterrence that contributes to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the region.
- S. Korea's acting president accepts presidential security chief's resignation People's Daily 10 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's acting president on Friday accepted resignation from presidential security chief who appeared before police for questioning over the obstruction of execution to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol.
- How Yoon's martial law bid complicates US-South Korea ties VOA 10 Jan 2025 -- In late 2021, the wife of then-presidential candidate Yoon Suk Yeol appeared exasperated by several journalists she insisted were treating her husband unfairly. In a leaked phone call with a left-leaning reporter, Kim Keon-hee vowed to have "all of them" jailed if her husband won the presidency.
- North Korea's claim of hypersonic missile launch likely 'deception': Seoul Radio Free Asia 07 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's military said North Korea's claim of successfully launching a new intermediate-range ballistic missile, or IRBM, tipped with a hypersonic warhead is likely to be a "deception."
- South Korea Convenes Security Council Over North's Launch of Ballistic Missile Sputnik 06 Jan 2025 -- South Korea convened its security council on Monday over what its military believes could have been a hypersonic missile launched by North Korea earlier in the day, South Korean media reported, citing authorities.
- Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul at a Press Availability US Dept. of State 06 Jan 2025
- Secretary Blinken's Meeting with Republic of Korea National Assembly Speaker Woo US Dept. of State 06 Jan 2025
- Secretary Blinken's Meeting with Republic of Korea Acting President Choi US Dept. of State 06 Jan 2025
- South Korea political turmoil drags on as investigators seek extension of arrest warrant for president Global Times 06 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's political turmoil continued to escalate on Monday, as South Korea's investigating authorities requested an extension of a warrant to arrest the country's impeached president, Yoon Suk-yeol.
- S. Korea's CIO to seek extension of warrant to arrest Yoon People's Daily 06 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's anti-corruption investigative agency will seek the extension of a warrant to arrest the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol on Monday after a botched attempt of Yoon's arrest last week, according to multiple media outlets.
- S. Korea's presidential security service chief vows to block arrest of impeached Yoon People's Daily 06 Jan 2025 -- Chief of South Korea's presidential security service, Park Jong-joon, on Sunday vowed to keep blocking an attempt to arrest the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol.
- North Korea launches ballistic missile as US secretary of state visits South Press TV 06 Jan 2025 -- North Korea has fired what appeared to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan, as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken pays a visit to South Korea.
- Joint Press Statement on the Human Rights and Humanitarian Situation in Myanmar US Dept. of State 06 Jan 2025 -- The text of the following joint statement was released by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union and the Governments of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, and the United Kingdom to address the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.
- S.Korean investigators' unprecedented arrest attempt on Yoon suspended after standoff Global Times 03 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's anti-corruption agency attempted to detain impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday over his failed martial law bid - the first time in the country's modern history that an arrest warrant was issued against a sitting president, but the operation was thwarted following a standoff of more than five hours between investigators and presidential security staff, South Korean media reported.
- South Korean authorities halt attempt to arrest Yoon VOA 03 Jan 2025 -- South Korean authorities Friday suspended their attempt to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol following a tense six-hour standoff between investigators and security forces loyal to the embattled conservative president.
- Analysts: South Korea's political turmoil works in China's favor VOA 03 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's political turmoil is deepening since its martial law debacle, and analysts say China may have an opportunity to increase its leverage over the country.
- South Korean investigators launch attempt to arrest President Yoon Global Times 03 Jan 2025 -- A group of South Korean investigators entered the presidential office in central Seoul and launched an attempt to arrest President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday morning to execute the detention warrant against Yoon that was issued by a Seoul court Tuesday, multiple media outlets said, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
- South Korea's Yoon vows to 'fight until end' despite facing arrest Press TV 02 Jan 2025 -- South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has written a letter urging his supporters to stand by him, declaring that he will "fight until the end", as authorities seek to arrest him over his brief martial law imposed last month.
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