AJA, JAK forum to debate “how we should face the third decade of the 21st century”
Seoul: Diplomacy, national security, the unification of Korea, multiculturalism, conflicts, the environment, and religion will be among the topics to be debated in depth at a forum to be hosted by the Asia Journalist Association (Director Lee Hyung Kyun, President Ashraf Dali) next week. The two-part forum, “How we should face 2020-2029, the third decade […]
South Korea to take part in joint peacekeeping drills in Indonesia
Seoul: South Korea will join multinational peacekeeping exercises set to be held in Indonesia this week as part of continued efforts to carry out its role in peacekeeping missions, the defense ministry said Sunday. The military will dispatch an operations team of 10 officers and two military observers to Bogor, a city south of Jakarta, from […]
Four Pakistan soldiers killed in firing near Afghan border
By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Correspondent Islamabad: Four soldiers of the Pakistan army were martyred and one other was injured in two separate incidents of firing by militants near the Afghan border, the military’s media wing said on Saturday. The first incident occurred in North Waziristan tribal district, where miscreants opened fires on a routine patrolling […]
Pakistan soldier killed in Indian firing across border
By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Correspondent Islamabad: A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred after Indian troops resorted to “unprovoked” firing from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Hajipir sector of Haveli district, Kashmir, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday. The soldier was identified as Havaldar Nasir Hussain from Punjab province, by the military’s […]
Saudi military adviser calls on Pakistan Army Chief
By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Corresppondent Islamabad: Major General Talal Abdullah Al-Otaibi, the military adviser to Saudi Arabia’s defence minister, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters on Thursday. Matters of mutual interest and regional security were discussed during the meeting, […]
North Korea says it tested super-large multiple rocket launcher
Seoul: North Korea said Wednesday that it tested a “super-large” multiple rocket launcher the previous day, but stopped short of declaring the test as a success, raising speculation that the latest firing might have failed to reach its intended targets. On Tuesday, South Korea’s military said that the North fired two short-range projectiles eastward from […]
Hours after offering to resume talks with U.S., North Korea fires short-range projectiles toward East Sea
Seoul: North Korea fired two short-range projectiles from a western region toward the East Sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, just hours after the communist nation offered to resume nuclear talks with the United States. The projectiles were fired at 6:53 a.m. and 7:12 a.m. from areas in the city of Kaechon, South Pyongan […]
US CENTCOM commander calls on COAS, discusses Kashmir, Afghanistan situation
By Nasir Aijaz AsiaN Correspondent Islamabad: The commander of the United States Central Command (US CENTCOM), General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr, on Monday called on Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the Pakistan Army’s headquarters in Rawalpindi. Gen. McKenzie, who is in Pakistan since September 7, met with Gen. Bajwa […]
North Korean hosts ‘undeclared’ base for missiles 165 kilometers northeast of Seoul
A new study spotlighting an “undeclared” North Korean missile base that hosts medium-range weapons was released Friday. The Kumchon-ni (금천리) missile operating base is located within North Korea’s tactical missile belt, in Anbyon-gun (안변군, Anbyon County), Kangwon-do (강원도, Kangwon Province), 75 kilometers north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 165 kilometers northeast of Seoul and […]
South Korea considering naming non-diplomat official to lead defense cost negotiations with U.S.: sources
Seoul: The government is considering naming a non-diplomat official, such as a financial technocrat, to head negotiations with the U.S. on sharing the cost for the upkeep of American troops, sources said Friday. That would mark a departure from the tradition that officials from either the foreign or defense ministries have led the Special Measures […]
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