SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of North Korean defectors coming to South Korea rose 15 percent on-year in the first eight months of 2016, government data showed Wednesday, as the North’s leader is tightening his iron-fisted rule on the country. In the January-August period, 894 North Koreans escaped and arrived in South [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state-run newspaper Rodong Sinum released photos of the country’s latest missile launches, which took place on Monday, as an apparent show of force amid the G20 summit in China. The launch also came four days before the 68th anniversary of the establishment of the North Korean regime. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday fired off three ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, escalating tensions on the peninsula days ahead of its key anniversary. The communist regime test-fired the three ballistic missiles from Hwangju in North Hwanghae Province at [...]
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye on Monday called North Korea’s continued provocations a challenge to relations between South Korea and China, voicing her hope for Seoul and Beijing to turn the situation into an opportunity to further strengthen their bilateral relationship. She made the remarks during her summit with Chinese [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s Taedonggang Beer Festival kicked off for a 20-day run on August 12, showing off its people’s “happy and optimism-filled livelihood, building a paradise of the people and a strong socialist nation, while crushing America and its anti-republic followers’ schemes to isolate and annihilate (North Korea),” in the words [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s military on Friday released a white paper condemning South Korea and the United States for conducting joint military exercises, calling it a product of Washington’s “hideous” hostile policy toward Pyongyang. A mission of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) at the truce village of Panmunjom said that the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s 20th National Assembly kicked off its first regular session on Thursday that will run through December, with the ruling Saenuri Party protesting against the parliamentary speaker’s remark criticizing the government’s bid to deploy a U.S. missile defense system. The Saenuri Party, as well as the Minjoo Party [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is building a mobile long-range missile launcher system that can move along the country’s railroad tracks, the U.S.-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Wednesday, citing sources in the communist country. A North Korean resident in Kangwon Province told RFA that North Korean engineers have been working on [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A mock treatment drill on Tuesday at Ajou University Hospital in Suwon, just south of Seoul, tested the preparedness of staff and emergency responders should U.S. soldiers be injured by a North Korean attack. Staff of the hospital’s emergency room carried six injured U.S. soldiers on carts [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military said Monday it will conduct detailed examinations into three sites in the rural county of Seongju to check if alternate locations can be found to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system. The move comes as Seongju residents strongly protested the government’s decision to install the [...]