SEOUL, March 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top military officer is set to depart for Saudi Arabia on Friday as part of efforts to enhance bilateral arms industry cooperation, the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
11:25 Mar. 04
SEOUL, March 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's enlisted troops began casting votes for next week's presidential election as the two-day advance voting opened Friday at 3,552 polling stations across the n...
11:07 Mar. 04
SEOUL, March 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will begin a domestic performance test on a homegrown radar system this month as part of the country's major fighter development project, the state arms procu...
10:35 Mar. 04
SEOUL, March 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's state arms procurement agency plans to check potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities of all local defense firms starting in May, its officials said Friday, ...
09:42 Mar. 04
(ATTN: UPDATES with recommendation to confer gov't medal on pilots in 12th para)
By Song Sang-ho and Kang Yoon-seung
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's radar-evading F-35A fighter made an eme...
17:33 Mar. 03
(ATTN: UPDATES with F-5 crash probe result in paras 7-11, more details in 6th para; ADDS byline)
By Song Sang-ho and Kang Yoon-seung
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's radar-evading F-35A figh...
15:28 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's radar-evading F-35A fighter made an emergency belly landing in January due to a bird strike that caused internal damage, its military said Thursday.
Wrap...
14:42 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- The military on Thursday reported 1,532 additional COVID-19 cases to set a new daily record, raising the total caseload among its domestic personnel to 21,699.
The new...
14:37 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- The armed conflict in Ukraine has led to a delay in talks among South Korea, the United States and Japan to arrange their in-person defense ministerial meeting, a Seoul of...
11:55 Mar. 03
SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- The military on Wednesday reported 898 additional COVID-19 cases, raising the total caseload among its domestic personnel to 20,167.
The new cases included 639 from th...
14:21 Mar. 02
SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- Russia's invasion of Ukraine could further increase North Korea's reluctance to abandon nuclear arms, former U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) chiefs have said, raising the need f...
14:10 Mar. 02
By Kang Yoon-seung
SEOUL, March 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Tuesday opened a Seoul museum memorializing its provisional government at the forefront of the country's independence fight against Japa...
10:00 Mar. 01
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Marine Corps Commandant Lt. Gen. Kim Tae-sung is set to depart for Hawaii on Monday for talks with U.S. military officials over bilateral cooperation, his o...
16:04 Feb. 28
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- Defense Minister Suh Wook said Monday that no special activity has been detected with regard to North Korea's nuclear program, though Pyongyang appears to be bolstering i...
14:20 Feb. 28
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- The military on Monday reported 740 additional COVID-19 cases, raising the total caseload among its domestic personnel to 18,471.
The new cases included 498 from the A...
14:11 Feb. 28
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's ballistic missile launch this week appears aimed at demonstrating its policy line of "power for power" and grabbing global attention amid the armed conflict...
10:57 Feb. 28
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- The military on Sunday reported 843 additional COVID-19 cases, raising the total caseload among its domestic personnel to 17,736.
The new cases included 490 from the A...
14:09 Feb. 27
(ATTN: UPDATES throughout with more info, U.S. military response in paras 6-9, 12-14)
By Song Sang-ho and Kang Yoon-seung
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the...
14:03 Feb. 27
(ATTN: UPDATES throughout with S. Korean military's briefing: RECASTS headline, lead)
By Song Sang-ho and Kang Yoon-seung
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the...
11:43 Feb. 27