All posts tagged "military"

  • Members of the South Korean special forces take part in a military drill in Yeongcheon, southeast of Seoul in this May 2, 2013 picture. (Yonhap)
    New Korean law calls for up to 5 years in prison for military service evasion

    1,135 South Korean citizens over the age of 25 are suspected of evasion by living overseas from 2006 to July this year, according to the Military Manpower Administration. The South Korean government is ready to punish male...

    • Posted September 16, 2015
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  • Members of the South Korean special forces take part in a military drill in Yeongcheon, southeast of Seoul in this May 2, 2013 picture. (Yonhap)
    More than 16,000 S. Korean men give up nationality to avoid military service

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — More than 16,000 South Korean men have relinquished their nationality to avoid the mandatory military service in recent years, an opposition lawmaker said Monday. A total of 4,386 men opted for foreign citizenship in...

    • Posted September 14, 2015
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  • A North Korean army soldier, left, looks at the south side as a South Korean army soldier stands guard at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Both Koreas’ militaries return to peacetime mode

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Militaries on both sides of the Korean border have relaxed their defense postures to peacetime levels following a landmark deal that defused tensions between the sides, military officials said Sunday. South and North Korea...

    • Posted August 31, 2015
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  • A group of conscripts salutes during a ceremony at a boot camp in the city of Nonsan, 213 kilometers south of Seoul, on Aug. 24, 2015 to mark the camp's reception of recruits at a time when tensions between the Koreas have risen dramatically following the North's launch of a landmine attack and firing of artillery shells across the border. All able-bodied South Korean males are required to serve almost two years in the military. (Yonhap)
    Inter-Korean tensions alter sense of national security in young generation

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Cho Min-soo, a 22-year-old sergeant assigned to the 3rd Division in the central front of the South Korean Army, was supposed to be discharged Tuesday and start work as a civilian in September. Cho,...

    • Posted August 26, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping wave during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday, June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Wang Zhao, Pool)
    President Park to attend military parade in Beijing

    By Kang Seung-woo, Jun Ji-hye President Park Geun-hye will observe a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sept. 3 in Beijing, Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday. “Considering friendly and...

    • Posted August 26, 2015
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  • South Korean soldiers patrol along the coast of South Korea`s western island of Yeonpyeong, which borders North Korea, on Aug. 26, 2015. The South Korean military has reduced its military alert position since North Korea lifted the quasi-war state of its armed forces following the two Koreas` agreement the previous day on defusing tensions after four days of intensive inter-Korean talks. (Yonhap)
    S. Korean military relaxes top-level defense posture at border

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The South Korean military relaxed Wednesday its high-level combat readiness posture it had maintained at the border due to heightened tensions with North Korea earlier this month, a military source said. “The maximum alert...

    • Posted August 25, 2015
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  • A group of conscripts salutes during a ceremony at a boot camp in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, Monday to mark the camp's reception of recruits at a time when tensions between the Koreas have risen dramatically following the North's launch of a landmine attack and firing of artillery shells across the border. (Yonhap)
    Young S. Korean men willing to fight against N. Korea

    By Chung Ah-young South Korean men in their 20s and 30s are expressing a willingness to fight against the North amid heightened tension along the border. Reservists have been posting messages and photos of their military uniforms...

    • Posted August 24, 2015
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