North Korea demands South Korea return 11 defectors, but Seoul says it won'tOctober 4th, 2009 North Korea demands SKorea return 11 defectorsSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's Unification Ministry says North Korea has demanded Seoul return 11 people who defected to the South by sea last week. The ministry says in a statement that the North sent its demand in a message Sunday.
South Korea's first rocket carrying an observation satellite blasts off from launch padAugust 25th, 2009 SKorea launches its first rocket into spaceGOHEUNG, South Korea — South Korea has sent its first rocket into space from a launch pad in the south — about four months after rival North Korea drew international sanctions for its own rocket launch. The two-stage Naro rocket lifted off Tuesday from the country's space center on an island off the southern coast.
South Korea to launch carrier rocket Aug 25August 21st, 2009 MOSCOW - South Korea will launch its first carrier rocket from the country's Naro Space Centre Aug 25, the Yonhap news agency reported Friday. South Korea postponed the launch of KSLV-1 after a technical problem Aug 19.
South Korea cancels first-ever satellite launchAugust 19th, 2009 SEOUL - South Korea Wednesday cancelled the launch of its first space rocket at the last minute owing to technical problems. With only eight minutes to go in the countdown, mission controllers decided to suspend the launch of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, which was to send a scientific satellite into orbit, the South Korean science ministry said.
North Korea threatens US with military strikesJune 17th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Wednesday renewed its threats of military strikes against the US and its allies in case the Stalinist state felt provoked. "If the US and its followers infringe upon our republic's sovereignty even a bit, our military and people will launch a 100 or 1,000-fold retaliation with merciless military strikes," a commentary in the state-run Minju Choson newspaper said.
North Korea threatens military strike against South KoreaMay 27th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Wednesday warned it will respond militarily to South Korea joining a US-led initiative to intercept ships carrying illicit weapons, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said.
South Korean delegation in North Korea for talksApril 21st, 2009 SEOUL - A South Korean delegation reached North Korea Tuesday morning to participate in talks amid mounting tensions in the Korean Peninsula. 'The delegation has crossed the border,' a spokesman of South Korea's Unification Ministry said.
South Korea agrees for talks with North KoreaApril 19th, 2009 SEOUL - The South Korean government Sunday said that it has decided to accept Pyongyang's offer for holding inter-Korean talks next week. It will be the first governmental talks between South Korea and North Korea since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office in February last year.
South Korea says North Korea has proposed meeting on joint industrial complexApril 17th, 2009 NKorea proposes meeting on joint factory parkSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea says that North Korea has proposed a meeting on a joint factory park in the North next week. Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyeon told reporters Saturday that the North recently proposed a meeting to discuss the joint complex in the border town of Kaesong.
North Korea launches rocketApril 5th, 2009 TOKYO - North Korea launched a rocket Sunday, a South Korean foreign ministry official told Yonhap news agency. Pyongyang said it was putting a communications satellite into orbit, but Japan, South Korea and Washington believe the launch was a screen to test a long-range ballistic missile.
North Korea making final preparations for rocket launchApril 3rd, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea has begun final preparations for its controversial long-range rocket launch and could fire the weapon as early as Saturday, South Korean media reported Friday. 'North Korea seems to have almost finished fuelling the rocket, so it is highly likely it will launch it,' The Korea Times quoted an anonymous government official as saying.
N Korea threatens to launch 'war' if its satellite are shot downMarch 12th, 2009 PYONGYANG - North Korea has warned that it is "fully combat ready" to retaliate against any attempt to thwart off its planned satellite launch. "Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war," said the statement, carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency.
US reaches out to North Korea, seeks dialogueMarch 8th, 2009 SEOUL - The US Saturday reached out to North Korea, saying it wanted a dialogue despite a series of threats the North has made against South Korea, a close ally of Washington. 'We are reaching out now,' US envoy Stephen Bosworth said upon his arrival in South Korea.
North Korea threatens to shoot down South Korean planesMarch 6th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Thursday indirectly threatened to shoot down South Korean passenger aircraft in its airspace, amid growing tension on the Korean peninsula. North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea made the threat as the US and South Korea prepared to undertake joint military exercises next Monday.
North Korea readying intercontinental missile launch: ReportsFebruary 2nd, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea is preparing to test-fire an intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, South Korean media reports said Tuesday. Intelligence agencies in South Korea and the US observed a train carrying a large cylindrical object that was believed to be a Taepodong-2 missile, the South Korea news agency Yonhap reported, citing an intelligence source.
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