SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has invited people who contributed to attaining this year’s key economic goals to Pyongyang for New Year’s celebrations, state media reported Friday. North Korea is preparing to hold celebration events in the capital to mark the start of the new year, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea will continue to escalate its nuclear threats against the United States and South Korea next year while seeking to improve its capabilities to strike back with a nuclear weapon if it comes under a nuclear attack, experts said Wednesday. Jun Bong-geun, a professor emeritus at the state-run [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – On December 26, a video released by the Israeli Embassy in South Korea on its official social media account stirred significant controversy. The video, which depicted a simulated Hamas attack on South Korea, was set in Seoul, and was taken down within a day due to the escalating controversy. Numerous [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The unification ministry said Tuesday it will push to conduct DNA tests on descendants of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War in a bid to use their gene information for potential family reunions with their relatives in North Korea. The move comes as more aging separated family members [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Around one-fifth of North Korean defectors in South Korea live in Seoul, but close to 70 percent of them have a hard time making ends meet, a think tank report showed Sunday. The Seoul Institute, a research center established by the Seoul city government, analyzed residential data of North [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea staged an independent tabletop exercise simulating a North Korean nuclear attack this year as part of efforts to hone response capabilities against the North’s military threats, the defense ministry said Friday. The ministry noted the discussion-based exercise as one of its key accomplishments this year in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine arrived in South Korea on Sunday, Seoul’s defense ministry said, amid concerns North Korea could launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this month. The USS Missouri (SSN-780), a Virginia-class attack submarine, entered a key naval base in Busan, 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul, earlier in [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Prospects for the resumption of dialogue between the United States and North Korea appear to be growing dimmer as Washington’s diplomatic overtures have fallen on deaf ears, fanning skepticism about bilateral reengagement. Deepening skepticism in Washington was highlighted last week when Kurt Campbell — President Joe Biden’s top Indo-Pacific [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification minister said Monday the government will make efforts to assuage foreign investors’ concerns about heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, saying his country has been beefing up a readiness posture against North Korea’s potential provocations. Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho made the remark during his meeting with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Friday called on its people to climb up Mount Paektu in winter to better learn about “revolutionary spirits.” The Rodong Sinmun, the main newspaper, reported that around 120,000 people at some 2,400 organizations have gone up Mount Paektu so far along the path on which North [...]