SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – As North Korea and Russia deepen ties across various areas, the two countries are now pursuing a joint project to safeguard the critically endangered Korean tiger, known as the Amur tiger, according to Russian officials. In comments reported by the state RIA Novosti news agency on June 17, Alexander Kozlov, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean military has postponed planned live-fire artillery exercises, a move seen as an effort to manage escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, according to officials. On June 17, the South Korean marine corps was expected to conduct drills using K9 self-propelled howitzers around the islands of Baengnyeong and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has sent around 310 trash-carrying balloons across the border overnight, South Korea’s military said Monday, amid escalating tensions over the North’s repeated balloon campaign to which South Korea has responded with the resumption of loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts after six years. The latest batch of waste-loaded balloons sent [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) – A North Korean defectors’ group said Saturday that it has sent additional propaganda leaflets critical of the North Korean regime across the border, heightening concerns that Pyongyang may resume sending balloons filled with trash in retaliation. Ten large balloons, carrying approximately 200,000 leaflets criticizing North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, were [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has notably increased his public activities related to the military over the past three months, according to a new analysis by the Korea Institute for National Unification, a think tank in Seoul. In a report titled “Analysis of the North Korean Leadership’s Public Activities [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The ruling People Power Party (PPP) said Tuesday it will push for a law revision allowing compensation for any citizen who suffers damage from North Korea’s trash-carrying balloons. During a party meeting, PPP floor leader Choo Kyung-ho noted the lack of legal grounds to compensate South Korean citizens who [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korean defectors’ group said Monday it could consider temporarily halting the scattering of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border if the North’s leader Kim Jong-un apologizes for the sending of trash-carrying balloons to South Korea. Since Tuesday, North Korea has sent nearly 1,000 balloons carrying trash to the [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South and North Korea had no cross-border trade last year and Seoul’s humanitarian aid to Pyongyang hit an all-time low amid frozen inter-Korean ties, the unification ministry said Friday. It marked the first time that the two Koreas logged no cross-border trade since 1989, when they began trading, according [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Around 90 balloons suspected to have been launched by North Korea have been found scattered across South Korea, including the capital Seoul and areas near the militarized border, according to military officials on May 29. Some of the balloons have landed while others remain aloft, the officials said. Troops are [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Fireworks modeled after North Korea’s largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) have become available for purchase, in what observers say is another point of pride for the reclusive regime. On Sunday, North Korea’s state-run Korean Central TV showed footage of fireworks shaped like the Hwasong-17 ICBM displayed on shelves at [...]