Seoul to restore all border military activities restricted under 2018 pact with N. Korea South Korea will resume all military activities near the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) and its northwestern border islands for the first time in more than five years, with the full suspension of a 2018 inter-Korean tension reduction pact, the defense ministry said Tuesday.Jun 4, 2024
US watching tensions on Korean Peninsula with 'great concern': White House official The United States is watching growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula with "great concern," a White House official said Monday, stressing ongoing efforts to ensure that America is "best-postured" to support South Korea.Jun 4, 2024
Another monument set up in hopes of return of teens abducted by N. Korea in 1970s South Korea on Monday unveiled another monument on a small southwestern island, hoping for the safe return of South Korean high school students abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s.Jun 3, 2024
S. Korea considering raising N. Korea's GPS jamming attacks with UN bodies South Korea is considering taking up North Korea's repeated jamming of GPS navigation signals with related U.N. bodies and other international organizations to bring its illegality to attention and stop Pyongyang's acts, officials said Monday.Jun 3, 2024
South Korea to suspend inter-Korean military agreement The National Security Council (NSC) decided Monday to suspend the 2018 inter-Korean military agreement in response to North Korea's sending of trash-filled balloons over the border.Jun 3, 2024By Kwak Yeon-soo
Unification minister criticizes N. Korea over trash balloons, GPS jamming Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho criticized a recent series of provocations by North Korea on Monday, emphasizing that such "inhumane and regressive" acts will only lead to deepening the regime's isolation.Jun 3, 2024
PPP vows 'most lethal' measures against N. Korea's Kim family for sending trash-filled balloons The ruling People Power Party (PPP) warned Monday of the "most effective and lethal" measures against North Korea for sending trash balloons into South Korea and jamming GPS signals last week.Jun 3, 2024
Activists mull suspending leaflet operation if Kim Jong-un apologizes for balloon campaign A North Korean defectors' group said Monday it could consider temporarily halting the scattering of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border if the North's leader Kim Jong-un apologizes for the sending of trash-carrying balloons to South Korea.Jun 3, 2024
North Korea says it will stop sending trash-filled balloons, will resume if South Korea sends leaflets North Korea said Sunday it will temporarily stop sending trash-filled balloons across the border to South Korea, though it also threatened to resume such operations if Seoul sends more anti-Pyongyang leaflets.Jun 3, 2024
Vehicle damaged by balloons from N. Korea A vehicle was damaged by a balloon carrying trash from North Korea on the southern outskirts of Seoul on Sunday as Pyongyang has continued its provocative actions for five straight days against the South, police said.Jun 2, 2024
