South Korea deploys AN-TPQ-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition Radar after North Korea barrage

SEOUL,  – South Korea said Friday it had deployed advanced weapons-tracking radar systems on islands near its disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea following last week’s artillery barrages by the North.
Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young told lawmakers the AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder systems had been set up on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands.
“A few days ago, deployment of [...]

South Korea starts talks with North despite threats

SEOUL — A South Korean team started talks in North Korea Tuesday on a joint business project despite last week’s threats from Pyongyang of a possible attack on its neighbour.
The two sides began two days of talks to discuss ways to revitalise their jointly-operated industrial estate at Kaesong just north of the border, Seoul’s unification [...]

South Korea seeks ‘turning point’ in ties with North

SEOUL — South Korea said on Monday it was seeking “a turning point” in relations with North Korea and again urged its communist nuclear-armed northern neighbour to disarm.
President Lee Myung-Bak’s remarks followed a call by North Korea on Friday for an end to hostile relations with South Korea’s key ally, the United States, and a [...]

North Korea calls for end to hostile relations with U.S

SEOUL — North Korea early Friday called for an end to hostile relations with the United States, after a year marked by nuclear and missile tests and its rejection of international peace efforts.
The call was made in a New Year joint editorial of several leading state North Korean newspapers, the official Korean Central News Agency [...]

U.S. special envoy due in Seoul on North Korea nuclear mission

SEOUL — The US special envoy on North Korea was due in Seoul on Sunday before heading to Pyongyang to try to persuade the communist regime to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks.
Stephen Bosworth will be holding the first direct talks with the North under the administration of US President Barack Obama, but analysts and [...]

South Korean Navy deploys more warships to disputed Yellow Sea border

SEOUL  – South Korea Wednesday sent two more warships to guard its disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea, military sources said, a day after a naval clash raised tensions on the peninsula.

The sources told AFP the 1,800-ton patrol boats would “reinforce vigilance” along the sea border, where Seoul said a North Korean patrol boat [...]

U.S. warns North Korea after naval clash

The White House on Tuesday warned North Korea against any actions that could be seen as an “escalation” after a fiery maritime clash between the North’s navy and a South Korean vessel.
The clash, which South Korean officials said left the North Korean boat ablaze, occurred a week before Obama is due to visit Seoul as [...]

China won’t pressure North Korea : ICG

SEOUL — North Korea’s military provocations this year angered its ally China but Beijing remains reluctant to tighten the screws on Pyongyang, an influential think-tank said Tuesday.
China is more concerned about its neighbour’s stability than its nuclear programme and views the nuclear issue as mainly the responsibility of the United States, the Brussels-based International Crisis [...]

North Korea puts troops on alert over U.S. and South Korea military drill

SEOUL — North Korea Monday ordered its army and people on special alert as US and South Korean troops began a joint exercise, and vowed to respond to any military provocation with a nuclear attack. The communist state’s military supreme command, in a report on official media, described the exercise south of the border as [...]

North Korea is willing to hold talks with U.S

HANOI  – North Korea is willing to hold talks with Washington, a senior diplomat for the state said on Friday in the first such comments since former President Bill Clinton’s visit to Pyongyang last week.
North Korea released two U.S. journalists and a South Korean worker in recent days in conciliatory moves analysts said could mark [...]