SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent satellite imagery shows the arrival of tanker trucks at the launch pad of North Korea’s rocket site in an indication that the communist nation is forging ahead with a planned rocket launch, a North Korea-monitoring website said Friday. The imagery taken of the North’s Sohae or Dongchang-ri site [...]
SEOUL, Jan.28 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Daily NK, an online journal specializing in North Korea, citizens of Pyongyang are making efforts to avoid moving into new apartments built near the city’s Future Scientist Street. The apartments have been said to be ‘the proudest creations of the Kim Jong-un era’. A source from Pyongnam Province [...]
SEOUL, Jan.20 (Korea Bizwire) – With South Korea resuming loudspeaker broadcasts against North Korea following the latter’s nuclear test, North Korea also responded with its own loudspeaker broadcasts. However, instead of pointing its speakers to the south, it is sending out broadcasts towards its own territory. According to SBS, a South Korean broadcasting network, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Defense Minister Han Min-koo and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken held talks Wednesday as the allies are quickening moves to punish North Korea for its defiant nuclear test earlier this month. “Despite repeated warnings and worries by the international community, North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test, [...]
SEOUL, Jan.15 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Daily NK, an online newspaper specializing in North Korea, Kim Jong-un’s personal staff, the members of the 5th division, lead privileged lives, and with the young leader’s halo shining behind them, they even look down at Hwang Byung-seo, who is known to be the second in command in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leaflets criticizing the South were spotted for a second consecutive day in South Korea’s border towns Thursday as the rivals escalated their psychological warfare across the border in the wake of the communist nation’s recent nuclear test. “We detected the North Korean military spreading anti-South leaflets again [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - North Koreans have shown enthusiastic support for the nuclear scientists and officials who contributed to the North’s latest nuclear test, the North’s media said Thursday. Waving decorative flowers on streets in Pyongyang, about 100,000 North Koreans cheered a procession of vehicles carrying the scientists and officials, according to the North’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Tuesday it is not considering temporarily shutting down a joint industrial park in North Korea at this stage despite the North’s claimed successful test of a hydrogen bomb last week. The government has decided to limit the entry of South Korean nationals into Kaesong Industrial Complex [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korea has included songs by girl groups in anti-North Korea broadcasts initiated earlier on Friday along the inter-Korean border, sources in the South Korean defense ministry said. The playlist includes Girlfriend’s “Me Gustas Tu,” a dance track, and A-Pink’s “Let Us Just Love,” the theme song for the 2011 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea announced Wednesday it has succeeded in conducting a hydrogen bomb test, hours after an earthquake was detected close to the North’s nuclear test site in its northeastern region. In a “special” announcement aired on the North’s state television station, North Korea said it conducted an H-bomb test [...]