BEIJING/SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Ri Su-yong, vice chairman of the North Korean ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, arrived in Beijing Tuesday in the first visit by a ranking official since Pyongyang’s defiant fourth nuclear test in January that soured bilateral relations. Ri arrived in the Chinese capital with a large entourage of officials [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staffs revealed that a North Korean missile launch, which is assumed to have taken place at 05:20 local time, has failed. The launch presumably took place in the Wonsan area. Wonsan is a port city and naval base located on the eastern side of the [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s unification ministry said Monday that North Korea appears ready to kick off another campaign designed to push its people to work harder starting in June. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that the “200-day campaign of loyalty” will be launched in a bid to implement the five-year [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has instructed North Koreans using Chinese mobile phones to be punished for treason in order to fend off defections and internal information leaks to the outside world, a Seoul-based news outlet specializing in North Korea reported Friday. “Kim Jong-un recently issued an order to [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent hacking attempt on South Korea’s Air Force’s website apparently used methods mostly employed by North Korean hackers, a military source said Friday, raising suspicion that Pyongyang might have been behind the cyberattack. Military authorities have been conducting an investigation into a suspected hacking attempt into the official [...]
BEIJING, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected troops in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, near the sensitive border with its traditional ally, North Korea, according to China’s state media on Friday. Xi inspected senior military officials and soldiers stationed in Harbin, Heilongjiang’s capital, and an outpost on Tuesday and Wednesday, and [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) – South Korea’s defense and technology ministries on Thursday discussed the feasibility of creating a cybersecurity reserve force in preparation for a national network emergency. The idea was raised at a senior-level meeting between the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning aimed at strengthening [...]
WASHINGTON, May 25 (Yonhap) – North Korea is expected to collapse “much sooner than many of us think” due to internal unrest, former U.S. Forces Korea commander Walter Sharp said. Sharp, who commanded USFK from 2008 to 2011, told a symposium in Hawaii on Tuesday that he recently guaranteed new USFK commander Gen. Vincent Brooks [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Key ruling party members of North Korea and Cuba have held talks to discuss ways to further develop their friendly ties, Pyongyang’s state media said Wednesday. The talks were held in Cuba on Monday between the North Korean delegation led by Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the Workers’ Party [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said Tuesday that a small number of North Korean restaurant staff have recently escaped their workplace in China. The confirmation comes a day after local media reported two or three North Koreans are moving to a third country after fleeing a Pyongyang-run restaurant in [...]