SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of lawmakers from South Korea’s ruling Saenuri Party said Monday the country should consider building nuclear-powered submarines, amid escalating provocations by Pyongyang. The remark came as North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in waters off its east coast. The South Korean military said [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday said defections by North Korean officials indicate that internal insecurity has increased in the communist country as the reclusive country’s leader Kim Jong-un is strengthening his iron-fisted rule. Seoul’s unification ministry said that a series of defections by North Koreans are taking place at a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state radio station on Friday resumed the broadcast of mysterious numbers after a two-week hiatus, which some experts say are coded messages to its agents in South Korea. A female announcer at Radio Pyongyang read numbers for more than four minutes starting at 12:45 a.m., calling out [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s central television broadcasting station, Korean Central Television, aired footage of the recent launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Thursday, which took place in waters near Sinpo at around 5:30 a.m. local time on August 24. The one-minute-47-second clip showed the launch of the missile from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in waters off its east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, in an apparent protest against the ongoing military drill between Seoul and Washington. The JCS said that the communist state launched the SLBM from waters [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The use of mobile phones and computers by North Koreans declined from a year earlier as the communist country has tightened its control over people in recent years, a report showed Tuesday. The usage of mobile phones by North Koreans reached 46.4 percent in 2016, down from 55.5 percent [...]
INCHEON, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The defection of a Britain-based North Korean diplomat has received worldwide media coverage, yet again spotlighting the level of desperation and freedom sought out by the citizens living under one of world’s most oppressive regimes. And although defection to South Korea may be a dream-come-true for many North Koreans, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s leader seems to be obsessed with erasing all remaining vestiges of his uncle Jang Song-thaek, who he executed in 2013 for treason, a source familiar with the North’s affairs said Tuesday. The North’s leader Kim Jong-un has reacted sensitively to anything related to Jang, ordering overseas restaurants’ [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s largest annual combined military exercise with the United States, Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG), kicked off on Monday, with 25,000 American and 50,000 South Korean military personnel taking part. Nine South Korea allies – Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Italy, Philippines, the UK and New Zealand – that currently [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Defection by North Korean diplomats who have access to foreign currency holdings would make it harder for North Korea to bring in money from abroad which can eventually hasten the communist regime’s collapse in the event of a financial crisis, a renowned U.S. scholar said Monday. The analysis by [...]