SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government decided Monday to spend 1.95 billion won (US$1.76 million) to transform a guard post on the border with North Korea into a museum underscoring inter-Korean reconciliation efforts and honoring soldiers killed during the Korean War. The guard post at Arrowhead Ridge inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean individuals have taken to Twitter to post about their daily lives and domestic news, in a rare move by the reclusive country presumed to be aimed at reaching a broader audience through a more approachable style. It also appears to be in line with North Korea’s recent [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s state news agency on Wednesday highlighted the hazards of smoking, saying the habit could increase the chances of getting infected with the new coronavirus. North Korea’s media outlets have intensified calls for people to stop smoking since Pyongyang held a parliamentary meeting and adopted an anti-smoking law [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Koreans believe that there will be no major impact on inter-Korean relations when U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office early next year, a poll showed Monday. In the Realmeter survey of 500 people nationwide, aged 18 or older, conducted last Friday on prospects for Seoul-Pyongyang [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held a rare meeting of the Supreme People’s Assembly to adopt an anti-smoking law, state media reported Thursday, amid questions whether leader Kim Jong-un, known as a heavy smoker, would kick the habit. The plenary meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), held [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has introduced a payment service that allows people to purchase goods on mobile phones without having to carry around cash or plastic cards, a propaganda outlet said Wednesday. Meari, one of the North’s propaganda websites, said that a joint research team from the central bank and a [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia’s military intelligence unit was found to have been behind cyber attacks against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea’s alpine town of PyeongChang, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. The Justice Department, together with the FBI, charged six officers of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Army said Friday it will push to establish a surveillance system that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) along the inter-Korean border areas and coastal regions to beef up its security posture. The move came after a series of security breaches this year, including illegal entries of Chinese people into [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of South Koreans believe that North Korea is unlikely to ever agree to surrender its nuclear weapons. According to a survey conducted by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University of 1,200 South Korean adults aged between 19 and 65, 89.5 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that was showcased during a military parade marking the ruling Workers’ Party’s 75th founding anniversary appeared to be an integration of the communist country’s latest missile technologies, experts said Sunday. In a parade held in Pyongyang on Saturday, North Korea unveiled the [...]