SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A high-ranking delegation from North Korea’s Workers’ Party has arrived in Moscow for a visit at the invitation of Russia’s ruling party, state media reported Tuesday. The delegation, led by Ri Hi-yong, a member of the party’s Central Committee Politburo, landed in Moscow the previous day at the invitation [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine has expressed his wish to go to South Korea, a news report said Wednesday, in what would be the first known case for a North Korean captive to voice an intent to defect to the South. A North Korean [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled a construction plan to expand the capital, Pyongyang, eastward, vowing to refurbish dilapidated suburban areas, state media reported Monday. Kim announced the plan in his speech during a groundbreaking ceremony the previous day for the construction of 10,000 flats in Pyongyang’s Hwasong [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has paid his respects at the mausoleum of his father, late leader Kim Jong-il, on the anniversary of his birthday, state media reported Monday, marking his first reported visit to the family mausoleum on the late leader’s birth anniversary in four years. Kim visited [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign tour agents have entered North Korea for the first time since it closed its borders to tourism in 2020 due to COVID-19, to inspect new tourism sites, a tour agency’s website said Friday, amid signs of Pyongyang reopening to foreign tourists. Koryo Tours’ staff crossed into North Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The unification ministry said Thursday that North Korea was dismantling a reunion facility for separated families inside its Mount Kumgang tourist area and urged Pyongyang to immediately stop. Koo Byoung-sam, spokesman at the South Korean ministry, also voiced “strong regrets” over North Korea’s move, vowing to consider legal steps [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea demanded during inter-Korean talks in 1990 that South Korea dismantle a barricade it had installed along their border, calling it “a disgrace” to the Korean people, according to an official dossier declassified Thursday. The information was disclosed in the unification ministry’s official documents recording inter-Korean talks held [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has named two national players who won silver medals in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games mixed doubles event as among the top 10 athletes of the year, state media reported Wednesday. Ri Jong-sik and Kim Kum-yong, who brought home North Korea’s first medal in the Paris Olympics, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Tuesday denounced the recent arrival of a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea, accusing Washington of ignoring Pyongyang’s security concerns and warning that it is ready to use any means to defend its national security. North Korea’s defense ministry made the remarks a day after the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended the groundbreaking ceremony for a new greenhouse farm and a vegetable science research center in the northwestern city of Sinuiju, reaffirming his commitment to regional development, state media reported Tuesday. The ceremony was held the previous day for the “largest-ever modern” 450-hectare [...]