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 [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean children born in 2015 are expected to live more than 10 years shorter than their southern counterparts, an annual U.N. report said Thursday. According to the U.N. Development Programme’s report on the 2016 Human Development Index (HDI), the life expectancy of North Korean babies born in that year is estimated at 70.5 years, 11.6 years less than 82.1 years for South Korean babies. The [...]
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A former chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with North Korea said Thursday that attacking North Korea, regardless of whether it’s preemptive or preventive strikes, is sure to prompt retaliation that could lead to a second Korean War. Robert Gallucci, who negotiated a 1994 nuclear-freeze deal with Pyongyang that unraveled due [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Cash-strapped North Korea is inviting foreign investment in a cruise program linking its eastern mountain resort area to the Russian Far East and Southeast Asia, a North Korean website showed Thursday. Its website promoting Mt. Kumgang recently posted an investment guideline for a ferry business based in the port [...]
WASHINGTON, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States is looking at new “diplomatic, security and economic measures” to deal with the growing nuclear and missile threats from North Korea, the White House said Tuesday. “The United States in coordination with our allies is exploring a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures in [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson returned to the U.S. yesterday after visiting Japan, South Korea and China. It was a much anticipated timely visit during a politically tumultuous period in East Asia: Growing concerns over North Korea’s ballistic missiles, China’s retaliation against South Korea over the deployment of a [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who is widely known for his infamously barbaric and brutal ways, is attracting attention after being seen showing unusually friendly body language and behavior around his subordinates through state-owned media. Pictures of Kim Jong-un emerged soon after North Korea’s successful test launch of ballistic [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state radio station resumed broadcasting mysterious numbers Sunday after a nine-day hiatus that could be some kind of coded message to its agents operating in South Korea. The message began just after midnight (Seoul time), at 12:15 a.m., by the North’s propaganda station Radio Pyongyang. It lasted [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson began his two-day trip to South Korea on Friday, which is expected to focus on discussing ways to strengthen the bilateral alliance and fend off the growing threats from North Korea. Tillerson arrived at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is to visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Friday as the first major schedule of his trip to South Korea, the foreign ministry said Thursday, in an apparent bid to demonstrate a strong alliance between the two countries against North Korea. Tillerson is [...]