“I want to see the railways between the two Koreas be reconnected as quickly as possible. I want it to be a major starting point.” “Railways are actual linking channels for the two Koreas and I wish to discuss many other issues and cooperative projects based on this railway reconnection business.” - Hong Yong-pyo, unification [...]
SEOUL, July 10, (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean Children are exposed to various dangers including diseases and malnutrition due to the current drought, according to UNICEF. It was reported that children living in the drought-affected area are suffering from increased cases of diarrhea. UNICEF points out that the lack of safe drinking water and the [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A bio-pesticides research center that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited last month is believed to be capable of producing military-sized batches of biological weapons, including anthrax, a U.S. expert said Thursday. Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), said she [...]
Seoul, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — It was reported by The Telegraph, the British daily newspaper, that a farm manager in North Korea was executed after turtles at a farm he operated starved to death. The man was executed in mid-May, right after North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un visited the farm. When the farm [...]
The proposed concert is aimed at gathering musicians from the two Koreas to the border town, the last remaining vestige of the Cold War, to jointly celebrate the 70th anniversary of the liberation from the Japanese 1910-45 colonial rule. If the North Korea refuses our offer, we plan to host a peace concert in [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of Seoul residents think that political unrest and the split in public opinion is a greater threat to Korea’s security than nuclear arms in North Korea, a survey shows. The Seoul Metropolitan Government conducted a survey about national security, polling 3,039 Seoul citizens from June 11 to [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The teenage North Korean soldier who defected to South Korea this week left his barracks earlier this month and finally crossed the border after a week-long journey, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Tuesday. On Monday, the 19-year-old lowest-ranking North Korean enlistee defected to the South through the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Private financiers are on the rise in North Korea, operating as loan sharks and investing in development projects. Andrei Lankov, a professor at Kookmin University, said at a conference called ‘Doing Business in North Korea’ that North Korea has been seeing the advent of private financing along with capitalism [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean firms have decided to provide medical masks to North Korean workers at the inter-Korean industrial park to curb the spread of the MERS virus, a company official said Tuesday. South Korea has already installed three thermal scanners at the industrial complex in the North’s border city of [...]
“Kim Jong-un, the Chairman of North Korea’s National Defense Commission, appears to have a complex due to his young age as the leader of North Korea. His father Kim Jong-il began ruling North Korea in his early 30s, while Kim began at the age of 29. He is young for a leader, and appears ill [...]