SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held a meeting to hand out gifts to participants in the latest national conference of mothers, state media reported Wednesday, in an apparent move to secure their loyalty amid a declining birth rate. The central committee of the ruling Workers’ Party provided the participants with significant [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 6 out of 10 South Korean university students think that a resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue is necessary to achieve the reunification of the two Koreas, a survey showed Tuesday. In the survey conducted by Seoul’s foreign ministry, Chung-Ang University and the Hyundai Research Institute on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has stressed the role of mothers in strengthening the internal solidarity of the regime at the first national meeting of mothers in 11 years, state media reported Tuesday. Kim made the remark during his closing speech Monday at the Fifth National Congress of Mothers, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for measures to prevent a decrease in the country’s birth rate in the first national meeting of mothers in 11 years, state media reported Monday. Kim said he has thought about North Korean mothers whenever he faced difficulties in steering state and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea warned Sunday that a “physical clash and war” have become a matter of time on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of the scrapping of an inter-Korean military tension reduction accord, threatening that South Korea will face “total collapse” if it undertakes any hostile act. A North [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea lashed out at the United States on Saturday after a U.S. space official hinted at possible disabling of the North’s military spy satellite launched last week, saying that it will take it as “a declaration of war” against the regime. A spokesperson of the North’s defense ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Space has emerged as an extended battlefield for the rival Koreas as they have successfully launched their own spy satellites into orbit and are gearing up to send more to better monitor each other amid an intensifying arms race, analysts said Saturday. South Korea’s first homegrown spy satellite was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – For many North Korean defectors in South Korea, arriving here in one piece is one thing, but finding a job to support themselves in the capitalist society is another mission. Lee Hye-young, 39, still remembers the first few months into her job at a company that makes filters for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul High court on Friday ordered the government to reverse its decision to revoke the license of a North Korean defectors’ group for sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets over to the North. The court ruling came after the unification ministry revoked the license of Fighters for a Free North [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States has kept North Korea on its list of state sponsors of terrorism, an annual State Department report showed Thursday, noting the reclusive regime repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism. The department released the 2022 Country Reports on Terrorism, which serves as a guide for policy decisions [...]