SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state media reported Monday that the Asian Winter Games have opened in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, where three North Korean athletes are participating. The Rodong Sinmun, the North’s main newspaper, reported the ninth Asian Games kicked off in Harbin on Friday, adding that Chinese President [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a regional hospital, highlighting the wide gap between urban and rural areas and pledging to make the modernization of regional health service a “top priority,” state media reported Friday. Kim attended the ceremony Thursday, which marked the start [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - A joint motorway bridge project linking North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River is under way, with completion targeted by the end of 2026, according to a Russian report. The Russian government has tasked TonnelYuzhStroi, a construction company, with designing and building a motorway bridge over the river [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy has launched a new fleet command that will operate multiple destroyers, including those equipped with Aegis combat systems, in efforts to better respond to North Korea’s military threats at sea, officials said Sunday. “The Republic of Korea Navy Task Fleet Command, a core unit of the maritime [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. President Donald Trump will pursue the “complete denuclearization of North Korea,” a White House official said Tuesday, amid questions over whether Trump’s recent reference to the North as a “nuclear power” signaled any policy shift. National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes made the remarks shortly after the North’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A Russian travel agency has begun attracting tourists to North Korea’s new Kalma tourist zone along the east coast, potentially bringing Russians as the first foreign tourists to the location, the firm’s social media showed Friday. Vostok Intur, a Vladivostok-based tour agency organizing trips to North Korea, announced three [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is presumed to be accelerating preparations for the additional deployment of its troops to Russia while continuing to push for potential launches of a spy satellite or an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), South Korea’s military said Friday. The assessment comes as South Korea and the United States [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed while fighting Ukrainian forces in Russia’s western front-line region of Kursk, a news report said Thursday. Out of the estimated 11,000 North Korean troops deployed in support of Russia’s war against Ukraine, 4,000 have been killed, wounded, missing [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday described North Korea as a “nuclear power” and anticipated that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be “happy” to see his return to the White House. During a press availability at the Oval Office, Trump made his first public mention of the recalcitrant [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine this month has claimed that he arrived in Russia without knowing whom he would be fighting, according to another video of his interrogation released by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Earlier this month, Zelenskyy disclosed that his forces had captured [...]