SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed efforts Friday to improve ties with South Korea, saying that he is open to talks with Seoul in an open-minded manner for unification. In his New Year’s message delivered live on the North’s television, Kim said North Korea is open to having candid [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has offered “profound” condolences over the death of his key aide who handled inter-Korean affairs, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday. On Wednesday, Kim visited the mortuary of Kim Yang-gon, a secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, who died on Tuesday in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec.28 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-un the North Korean leader who is also known to be a chain smoker, was spotted smoking a cigarette and then throwing the butt away inside the subway. The North Korean Central News Agency reported footage of Kim Jong-un participating in the test drive of a subway developed with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South and North Korea have reached an agreement on the land use fee amount for South Korean firms operating a joint industrial park across the border, the Unification Ministry announced Thursday. The deal calls for South Korean firms at Kaesong Industrial Complex to pay US$0.64 per square meter every [...]
SEOUL, Dec.24 (Korea Bizwire) – A video clip of a pizzeria in North Korea taken by a Singaporean photographer is attracting the attention of internet users. Aram Pan from Singapore uploaded a seven-minute video clip called Ryung Song Pizza Restaurant to Youtube. The video contains footage of him and his colleagues going to the pizzeria [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 2,500 North Korean workers have been forced to work in Mongolia and Poland under poor working conditions with their human rights being violated, a South Korean civic group said Wednesday. About 1,800 North Korean workers are being forced to work mainly in Mongolia’s construction sector or in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea won’t accept North Korea’s demands simply to achieve its goal of regular reunions for families separated in the 1950-53 Korean War, Seoul’s point man on Pyongyang said Thursday. Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo was referring to Pyongyang’s demand that the two sides resume a long-stalled tour program to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a landmark mausoleum in Pyongyang on Thursday on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the death of his father. Kim, known to be in his early 30s, assumed power shortly after the death of Kim Jong-il, who had long ruled the communist [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is expected to reveal his new aides in a major community party convention to be held in May next year, a South Korean government think tank said Tuesday. The reclusive North is also unlikely to conduct a nuclear test in 2016, raising the possibility [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – China’s foreign ministry Monday said “communication issues at the working level” triggered the sudden cancellation of a well-publicized concert by an all-female band formed by the North’s leader Kim Jong-un. But, it gave little away on what the “communication issues” were, why the concert by North Korea’s Moranbong Band, [...]