Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

Allies to begin annual Freedom Shield military exercise next week

South Korea and the United States plan to commence their springtime joint military exercise next week, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North’s recent cruise missile tests.

2024-02-28

North orders intensified readiness near the NLL after 'new' cruise missile test

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised the test-firing of a new surface-to-sea missile, its state media reported Thursday, and ordered a strengthened defense posture around islands near the western maritime border.

2024-02-15

Kim Jong-un urges constitutional change to define South as 'No. 1 hostile country'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for constitutional amendments defining South Korea as the North's “No. 1 hostile country," Pyongyang's state media reported Tuesday.

2024-01-16

Yoon vows to respond firmly to North Korea's provocations

President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Thursday to respond firmly to North Korea's provocations as he marked the anniversary of a 1999 inter-Korean naval skirmish near the maritime border.

2023-06-15

Seoul mayor says sorry, but not sorry for alert message

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon on Wednesday apologized for "causing confusion" with an early morning evacuation warning sent to residents by the city government in response to a North Korean projectile launch but said the alert was not a mistake.

2023-05-31

Two North Korean families defect across the NLL by boat

Two North Korea families that included children entered the South by sailing across the de facto inter-Korean maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea earlier this month, South Korean military authorities revealed Thursday.

2023-05-18

Chinese boat collides with Coast Guard after pursuit by North Korean patrol vessel

The incursion of a North Korean sea patrol that crossed the inter-Korean maritime border in the Yellow Sea on Saturday in pursuit of a Chinese fishing vessel led to a minor collision between a South Korean Coast Guard patrol and the Chinese boat.

2023-04-16

North fires artillery to react to South-U.S. drills

North Korea's military fired some 90 artillery shells into the maritime buffer zone in the East Sea Tuesday afternoon, which South Korean defense officials denounced as a violation of an inter-Korean military agreement.

2022-12-06

North fires big guns, bigger insults at unification minister

North Korea's military fired over one hundred artillery shells into waters off its eastern and western coasts on Monday as its state-run propaganda outlet launched a verbal salvo against South Korea's top official on inter-Korean affairs.

2022-12-05

North Korean freighter breaches de facto sea border

Seoul and Pyongyang exchanged warning shots in the Yellow Sea on Monday morning after a North Korean freighter crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) for nearly 40 minutes.

2022-10-24