SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Wednesday it will hold an eight-day cultural event next month on the occasion of the 82nd birth anniversary of the country’s late leader Kim Jong-il. The people’s arts festival will be held Feb. 11-18 in Pyongyang to mark the anniversary, which falls on Feb. 16, according [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry said Wednesday it is closely reviewing legal aspects needed to sue North Korea over its illegal operation of the now-shuttered joint industrial complex in the North’s border city of Kaesong. The Donga Ilbo, a local newspaper, reported Wednesday that the government plans to lodge a [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric, persistent weapons tests and pursuit of sturdier military ties with Russia are raising questions over whether it is time for the United States to recalibrate its policy and take a more creative approach. After taking office in early 2021, the Joe Biden administration unveiled a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s recent series of missile launches using diverse platforms indicate its efforts to develop more powerful and harder-to-detect weapons, posing a challenge to South Korea’s missile defense system, experts said Monday. North Korea tested an array of missiles under development at the start of the year, including a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea fired several cruise missiles from its east coast on Sunday, the South Korean military said, days after Pyongyang test-fired new strategic cruise missiles from the west coast. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the North’s launch took place around 8 a.m. in waters off Shinpo Port, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) –Recent statements from private U.S. experts and U.S. government officials indicate a growing concern over the possibility of North Korea launching a significant attack against South Korea within months. According to a New York Times report from January 25, anonymous U.S. government sources stated that North Korea’s recent missile tests [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A U.S. surveillance aircraft flew over South Korea on Monday, aviation trackers showed, on an apparent mission to monitor North Korea following its claimed test of an underwater nuclear attack drone. The U.S. Air Force’s RC-135W Rivet Joint was spotted in skies above the city of Incheon, just west [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state-run broadcasting station on Wednesday aired a map that highlights only the northern part of the Korean Peninsula in red after its leader vowed to no longer seek reconciliation and unification with South Korea. In the initial segment of a program broadcast on Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is pressing ahead with measures to disband its inter-Korean organizations, apparently stopping a radio station previously used to send encrypted messages to its spies in South Korea. As of Saturday, the North appears to have stopped broadcasting the state-run Pyongyang Radio and cut off access to its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a noteworthy development announced Thursday by Seoul’s unification ministry, responsible for inter-Korean affairs, South Korea is set to launch its first annual global survey this year to assess awareness regarding the potential unification with North Korea. The survey, spanning various countries including the United States, Japan, Germany, and [...]