SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has increased funding for North Korean defectors to support their early settlement as part of its budget proposal for next year, in line with its new unification blueprint. The unification ministry’s budget proposal, which was approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday, came to 1.55 trillion won (US$1.17 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States commenced a joint live-fire aerial exercise on Monday, a move aimed at bolstering defenses against the growing threat posed by North Korea. The South Korean Air Force announced that the three-day exercise began earlier in the day over the waters off South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the construction of more modern hospitals as part of ongoing efforts to develop underdeveloped regions outside of Pyongyang, state media reported Monday. The direction was issued during Kim’s visit to various regional factories currently under construction on Saturday and Sunday, where he [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Friday denounced the United States’ approval of a potential sale of Apache attack helicopters to South Korea as a provocative act that deliberately aims to increase security instability in the region. A North Korean foreign ministry official issued the statement after the U.S. announced a decision [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Five Russian university students have arrived in North Korea for a language program, marking Russian students’ first entry to Pyongyang after a four-year hiatus since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang said Friday. The students from MGIMO University of the Russian Foreign Ministry visited [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean athletes who participated in the Paris Olympics are reportedly undergoing ideological examinations in Pyongyang after taking selfies with South Korean competitors, according to a report by Daily NK, citing a high-ranking source in the North Korean capital. The North Korean Olympic Committee delegation and athletes, who returned home [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier crossed the border into South Korea early Tuesday in the latest defection amid Seoul’s propaganda campaign in response to Pyongyang’s s repeated launches of trash-carrying balloons. The South Korean military detected the soldier from north of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) within the Demilitarized Zone [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to be shifting the responsibility for the latest flood damage to provincial officials on concerns that his leadership could be undermined amid increased public discontent, South Korea’s unification ministry said Tuesday. The Rodong Sinmun, the North’s main newspaper, reported that Kim called for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has exchanged a message with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule and vowed to bolster ties with Moscow, state media reported Friday. Putin extended a message to Kim earlier this week [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s crop output for this year could be dented by severe floods from the latest heavy rains and a possible increase in pest infestations, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday. North Korea is expected to receive above-average precipitation amounts between August and October, according to a [...]