WASHINGTON, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States should be prepared to launch preemptive strikes on North Korea, including a nuclear attack if necessary, before the communist nation uses its nuclear bombs that could “kill 90 percent of Americans,” a former CIA chief said Wednesday. James Woolsey, who served as CIA director from 1993-95, [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea will fully implement a new 12-year compulsory education system, a North Korean paper reported Wednesday, three days ahead of the start of a new semester in the communist country. “The 12-year obligatory school system will be enforced on a full scale this year,” the Rodong Sinmun, a [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean state-run think tank reported Wednesday North Korea is presumed to possess about 1,000 drones, raising concerns they could be used for airborne terror attacks. North Korea is focusing on developing drones in a bid to make up for the inferiority of the country’s air forces and [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – What the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, learned from his forefathers is not just their autocratic means to control the public – he also inherited their plump physique that has often been subject of mockery outside the country’s isolated regime. A 1960 article by a South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea released Sunday a synthesized video showing North Korean shooting athletes targeting American military forces, accusing the U.S. of threatening a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. The two-minute video, posted on North Korea’s propaganda website DPRK, starts with images of North Korean shooting athletes engaged in training. [...]
SEOGUIPO, South Korea, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A U.S. Aegis destroyer visited South Korea’s naval base on the southern resort island of Jeju on Saturday, becoming the first foreign warship to visit the base since it opened in February last year, officials said. The 8,400-ton USS Stethem arrived at the base at around 9:50 [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Several F-35B stealth fighter jets conducted bombing practice on the Korean Peninsula earlier this week in support of joint training between South Korean and U.S. marines, military authorities and sources said Saturday. The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) F-35 Lightning II aircraft are known to have returned to Japan after [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – As North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction continues to threaten security in East Asia and jeopardize its already compromising position in the world, speculation is growing over the possibility of global military conflict on the Korean Peninsula involving China and the U.S. The shocking prospect of another [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Friday continued its daily condemnations of alleged U.S. human rights abuses especially ahead of the adoption of a resolution on its human rights conditions at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. “The United States is disqualified to play the role of a human rights judge,” [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has been scrambling to reinforce its cyberwarfare capabilities and the number of its professional hackers is estimated to have reached about 7,700, a report issued in Seoul said Friday. The report by the Korea Institute for National Unification said that South Korea should come up with comprehensive [...]