SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is set to open its first party congress in more than three decades on Friday, a venue expected to focus on bolstering the personality cult of the country’s leader Kim Jong-un who has been in power for nearly five years. The congress of the Workers’ Party of [...]
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent satellite imagery shows North Korea is forging ahead with development of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, the website 38 North said Tuesday. The imagery taken of the North’s Shinpo Shipyard on April 29, six days after the North’s latest SLBM test, shows that a submersible missile test stand barge [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Many North Korean defectors have experienced difficulties finding jobs in South Korea because of their accent and the way they speak, a survey carried out by a local human rights watchdog said Tuesday. The poll of 1,400 North Korean defectors aged 15 years and older was conducted by the [...]
TEHRAN, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suggested Monday that his country is opposed to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. “We want changes on the Korean Peninsula and we are, in principle, opposed to any nuclear development,” Rouhani said in a joint news conference with South Korean President Park Geun-hye after their [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry said Monday that North Korea could carry out its fifth nuclear test around its party congress slated for late this week as it is seen to have completed all preparations. “There is a possibility that the North would conduct an additional nuclear test and fire [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of more than 20 North Korean defectors and ethnic Korean-Chinese people have been indicted here on charges of smuggling methamphetamine believed to be produced in the North into South Korea for sale or personal consumption, South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday, noting they have found circumstantial evidence [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has heightened surveillance along its border with China and beefed up monitoring of its people ahead of the ruling party’s congress next week, a source familiar with North Korea affairs said Friday. With the North’s rare party congress a week away, the country has moved to restrict [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea fired off what appeared to be its Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) early Thursday, but the launch seems to have ended in failure in the communist country’s second botched IRBM test in two weeks, a military official said. The missile appears to be the same model that [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – With the worrisome possibility of North Korea deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) on the horizon, South Korea is moving quickly to put together a comprehensive defense system designed to counter Pyongyang’s growing underwater threat. North Korea’s SLBM test last week provided the latest sign that the country’s SLBMs may [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – University students put on a performance in downtown Seoul on April 25, 2016, acting out jailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The performance is part of a three-day campaign arranged by university students across the country to demand that Kim be brought before the International Criminal Court for his [...]