SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is believed to be linked to a series of recent leaks of data on South Korea’s nuclear power plants, investigators said Tuesday. In December, an unidentified hacker, claiming to be an activist against nuclear power, had posted data about nuclear power plants, including their blueprints, five times [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The controversial issue of land use fees in a joint inter-Korean factory park in North Korea is expected to add fuel to the already-growing tension between the Koreas over the project, officials said Wednesday. In November, the North’s Central Special Development Guidance Bureau in charge of the industrial complex [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean capital of Seoul is seeking to conduct joint research projects with North Korea on traditional Korean cultural sites, the city government said Tuesday. To that end, the city government said it has recently tapped the joint council of South and North Korean historians for research ideas [...]
“What matters is that the South Korean puppet regime is branding the attack as an ‘act by the forces following the North’ in a desperate attempt to link the case with the DPRK. (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)” “The attack is a “reflection of the South Korean people’s mindset against the U.S.,” which is [...]
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean-Canadian pastor has lost contact after visiting North Korea, news reports said Monday, amid fears he could be detained in the communist nation. Rev. Lim Hyeon-soo, 60, entered the North via China on Jan. 31 and has since lost contact with friends and family, the Toronto Star reported. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged the North’s military to become elite units in full preparation for war with the United States after inspecting the new guard unit hall at a war museum, Pyongyang’s media said Saturday. Kim has toured the recently opened the guard unit hall at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Korean government is unfolding rather interesting measures to up its birth rate. Up until the 1980s, efforts were made to limit population growth by slowing down the birth rate. However, after a famine hit in the middle of the 1990s, causing millions of deaths, the government turned [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea appears to have conducted a secret nuclear test in 2010 and the explosion could have gone unnoticed by the outside world, scientists have claimed, adding to a series of similar allegations. Researchers Michael Schoeppner of Princeton University and Ulrich Kuhn of the University of Hamburg made the [...]
“We hope that Palestine’s representative office will be set up in South Korea at an earliest date because we believe that the move will help promote the relations between the two sides.” “I expect that Palestine’s ties with North Korea could help ease tension on the Korean Peninsula and further promote peace in the region. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Korean government is planning to host several cooking competitions, according to the Korean Central News agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state news agency. According to the KCNA’s report on February 9, the alleged aim of these curious competitions is to help improve North Koreans’ diets. A national competition will be [...]