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☆ South Korean Military Apologizes for Inaction Over North’s Drone Incursion
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

South Korea’s military apologized for failing to shoot down North Korean drones that flew across the border, an incident that raised concerns about South Korea’s defenses amid the North’s growing nuclear and missile threats. On Tuesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk -yeol criticized the military’s response to the border intrusion and vowed to fast-track plans for a military unit specializing in drones. On Monday, five drones from North Korea flew into South Korea, prompting Seoul to scramble jet fighters and fire warning shots. The drones reportedly all returned to North Korea.

☆ Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak Given Special Pardon
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—South Korean President Yoon Suk -yeol pardoned former President Lee Myung-bak, setting the disgraced leader free from his 17-year prison sentence for bribery and embezzlement. Mr. Yoon granted special pardons to 1,373 people on Tuesday. The most high-profile beneficiary was the 81-year-old Mr. Lee, who has been serving his prison term since October 2020. His prison sentence was suspended in June due to ill health. Mr. Lee has regularly received outside hospital treatment for health problems including diabetes.

☆ North Korea Tests New Rocket Engine to Enable Long-Range Missile Strikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—North Korea tested a solid-fuel rocket engine that is central to quicker deployment of its long-range missiles, delivering on a key weapons goal for leader Kim Jong Un . Missiles typically use either liquid or solid fuels. With liquid fuels, the process to launch a long-range missile can take hours, making any potential strike more easily detectable. But with solid fuel, the propellants can be stored inside a missile, allowing the weapon to be stashed in a more covert place and launched with more surprise.

☆ South Korea Passes New Law Making Everyone a Little Younger
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ North Korea Shoots Off About 130 Artillery Shells
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—North Korea fired about 130 artillery shells off its west and east coasts on Monday, as the U.S. and its allies pressure the Kim regime to abandon its weapons programs. The artillery shells were fired at around 2:59 p.m. from Kumgang county, which lies north of the heavily fortified demilitarized zone, and Jangsan Cape located on the country’s west coast, the military in Seoul said. The artillery firings involved multiple rocket launchers and splashed into the maritime buffer zones north of the Northern Limit Line, a disputed inter-Korean maritime border.

☆ North Korea’s Powerful New Missile Has Shortcomings as a Weapon
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, is shown standing next to his daughter in this government handout photo. SEOUL—North Korea celebrated the recent launch of a powerful intercontinental ballistic missile with the bravado the world has come to expect from Kim Jong Un ‘s regime. The North Korean leader described the country’s missiles as “monuments to be passed down to our descendants for generations to come” and promoted more than 100 military officials and scientists involved in missile development. He gave the missile’s launch vehicle the title of national hero and brought his daughter—making her first public appearance—to the test.

☆ North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Puts Daughter on View at ICBM Launch
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the launch of the country’s largest intercontinental ballistic missile alongside his daughter on Friday, unveiling one of his children for the first time. Photographs published by North Korean state media on Saturday showed Mr. Kim holding hands with his daughter in front of an ICBM sitting on a mobile launch platform. State media said that the missile launched on Friday was a Hwasong-17, which is believed to be the largest road-mobile, liquid-fueled ICBM in the world.

☆ North Korea Fires Suspected Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said the U.S. ‘will certainly regret’ its ties with South Korea and Japan. SEOUL—North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile off its east coast on Friday, Seoul’s military said, a day after threatening to take military counteraction against bolstered defense ties between the U.S., South Korea and Japan. The location, time and distance flown by the missile weren’t immediately released by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

☆ North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile After U.S. Summit With South Korea, Japan
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

North Korea warned that the summit between the U.S., South Korea and Japan would bring the situation on the Korean Peninsula to an ‘unpredictable phase.’SEOUL—North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast Thursday, just hours after threatening a fiercer military response to the U.S. bolstering its security presence in the region with its allies South Korea and Japan. The short-range ballistic missile was fired at 10:48 a.m. local time from the North’s eastern coastal city of Wonsan, Seoul’s military said. The missile hit an estimated altitude of roughly 29 miles, traveling about 149 miles before splashing into waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

☆ North Korea Shoots Ballistic Missiles Off Its West Coast
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—North Korea fired four short-range ballistic missiles off its west coast on Saturday as the U.S. and South Korea wrapped up joint air drills that were extended in response to Pyongyang’s provocations. The missiles were fired between 11:32 a.m. and 11:59 a.m. local time from North Pyongan province, located in the country’s northwest, the military in Seoul said. The missiles flew about 80 miles, hitting an altitude of roughly 12 miles.

SEOUL—In the wake of a tragedy that killed more than 150 Halloween revelers last weekend, South Koreans are reaching a consensus that the accident could have ben avoided. Officials didn’t have an adequate crowd-control plan for the partying-packed evening, and emergency calls warning of the dangerous overcrowding went unheeded. But the overcrowding was far from an aberration. As Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted throughout much of the world, partygoers and spectators have returned to large events en masse, fueled by the euphoria that has come at the end of a pandemic that kept people cooped up and apart from one another.

☆ North Korea Fires Six Missiles, Including ICBM
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile and two short-range ballistic missiles Thursday morning, triggering emergency warnings for Japanese citizens in northern prefectures to seek shelter, Seoul and Tokyo officials said. In the evening, Pyongyang fired three more short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea’s military said.

The U.S. and South Korea responded defiantly after North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile and two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, saying they would extend their military exercises this week and return next year to large-scale field exercises. In Washington, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin condemned the tests in a press briefing at the Pentagon alongside his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-sup.

☆ North Korea Fires 3 Missiles Including One Triggering Alarm in Japan
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—North Korea fired one long-range and two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, including a missile that triggered emergency warnings for Japanese citizens in northern prefectures to seek shelter, Seoul and Tokyo officials said. A long-range ballistic missile was fired from the Sunan area in the outskirts of Pyongyang at around 7:40 a.m. local time, Seoul’s military said. Then, at 8:39 a.m., two more short-range ballistic missiles were fired from Kaechon, north of Pyongyang. The distance flown by the missiles wasn’t immediately released by Seoul officials.

☆ North Korea Fires Three Missiles, Including ICBM
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile and two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, triggering emergency warnings for Japanese citizens in northern prefectures to seek shelter, Seoul and Tokyo officials said. The ICBM launch is the latest North Korean weapons provocation during a historic year of missile tests that have significantly escalated tensions in the region. The Thursday activity came a day after Pyongyang fired nearly two dozen missiles off its east and west coasts—including one that triggered air-raid alerts on a South Korean island—in what was a record number of launches for a single day.

SEOUL—At 4 a.m. on Sunday, Jung Hyeon-ji woke up to grab some water and scrolled through news about the deadly night in Seoul’s club district of Itaewon. What she saw still terrorizes her. The 21-year-old university student had taken to Twitter, where she encountered a barrage of raw footage from the cramped alleyway where hundreds of Halloween revelers were fatally crushed and severely injured. She saw police yanking people from a mound of tangled bodies. Ms. Jung said she could even make out faces—with some having turned pale or blue.

☆ North Korea Brackets the South With a Barrage of Missiles
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

North Korea had last conducted a ballistic missile launch on Oct. 28, an act that violated United Nations resolutions. North Korea fired more than 10 missiles off its eastern and western coasts on Wednesday, Seoul’s military said, with one missile triggering an air-raid warning for residents on Ulleung Island, off the east coast of South Korea. Seoul’s military said North Korea launched different kinds of missiles but did not immediately provide further details.

☆ Pyongyang Fires Missile as U.S., South Korea Conduct Joint Drills
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

North Korea last conducted a ballistic missile launch on Oct. 28., an act that violates United Nations resolutions. SEOUL—North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast on Wednesday, Seoul’s military said, as South Korea and the U.S. conduct combined air drills. The type of missile fired, distance flown and time weren’t immediately released by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

SEOUL—South Korean police are investigating the circumstances that led to a crowd crush in Seoul on Saturday night, including the possibility that some individuals intentionally pushed the crowd forward, as the public seeks answers in the wake of a tragedy that left more than 150 dead. Some 44 witnesses and injured survivors are being questioned about the accident in the Itaewon district, an official for South Korea’s National Police Agency said on Monday. Police are also combing through footage from dozens of security cameras and on social media to help determine how the incident may have occurred, the official said Monday.

SEOUL—In a narrow alleyway in Seoul’s lively club district, Halloween revelers were packed together so tightly that no one could move. People shouted to go forward. Others screamed to push back. Within moments late Saturday night, they began to fall like dominoes, as the crowd began collapsing on itself down the sloped side street. Hundreds of people got crushed, creating a human pile that stacked higher and higher.

☆ North Korea Fires Ballistic Missiles as Seoul Concludes Military Exercises
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Friday, Seoul officials said, as South Korea wraps up its annual military exercises. The missiles were fired between 11:59 a.m. and 12:18 p.m. local time from Tongchon, a county on North Korea’s west coast, according to Seoul’s military. They hit estimated altitudes of roughly 15 miles, traveling about 143 miles before splashing into the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

☆ North, South Korea Fire Warning Shots Along Disputed Western Sea Border
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A screen showing an image of a South Korean navy vessel during a news program, at a railway station in South Korea on Monday. SEOUL—North and South Korea fired warning shots in waters off their west coast early Monday, blaming each other for breaching their de facto maritime border as confrontations between the two countries rise in frequency. The latest exchange of fire comes as tensions on the Korean Peninsula have escalated beyond heated rhetoric, as the two Koreas increasingly engage in tit-for-tat military actions.

☆ While Kim Jong Un Shows World ‘Fire and Fury,’ He Projects Different Message at Home
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEOUL—To the outside world, North Korea’s recent missile activity is familiar: a flight over Japan, claims of weapons advances and threats to rivals in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo. But inside the rogue nation, these events are being portrayed much differently than they were in the past.

☆ North Korea Fires Artillery Shells Into Sea as South Korea Begins Military Drills
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ North Korea Fires Hundreds of Artillery Shells Into Sea as South Korea Begins Military Drills
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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