SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Tuesday there were votes against candidates for deputies to local assemblies in the latest local elections, marking the first time that the repressive regime has reported opposing votes in its elections. A total of 27,858 workers, peasants, intellectuals and officials were elected new deputies for local [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has sentenced a man to 14 months in prison for entering a poem praising the North Korean regime in a competition organized by a North Korean propaganda website. The Seoul Central District Court handed down the jail term to the 68-year-old on charges of violating the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un cast his ballot in local elections held over the weekend to pick new deputies for local assemblies of provinces, cities and counties across the nation, state media reported Monday, with voter turnout recorded at almost 100 percent. Kim visited a polling station set up [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has lauded the country’s successful launch of a military spy satellite as an eye-opening event of deploying a “space guard” monitoring enemies’ military activities, state media reported Friday. Kim made the remark during his visit to the National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) on Thursday, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Thursday it will immediately restore all military measures halted under a 2018 inter-Korean military accord after South Korea suspended part of the tension reduction deal following the North’s launch of a military spy satellite. The North’s defense ministry said it will “never be bound” by the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Defense chief Shin Won-sik said Thursday that South Korea’s partial suspension of a 2018 inter-Korean tension reduction deal is “a proportional response” and “a minimal defensive measure” against Pyongyang following its spy satellite launch. Shin’s comments came hours after North Korea’s defense ministry vowed to immediately restore all military [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign Minister Park Jin held talks with his British counterpart to discuss growing North Korean threats and ways to boost their bilateral relations, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. In the breakfast meeting held in London on Tuesday (local time), Park and Foreign Secretary David Cameron voiced concerns over North [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military said Wednesday that Pyongyang’s purported military spy satellite is assessed to have entered into orbit, although more time is needed to determine whether it is operating properly. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) made the assessment after the North claimed to have successfully put the satellite [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea suspended part of a 2018 inter-Korean military tension reduction agreement Wednesday in response to North Korea’s latest launch of a military spy satellite. Under the proposal approved in an extraordinary Cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, Seoul will restore reconnaissance and surveillance activities around [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan shared information about North Korea’s launch of what it claimed to be a military spy satellite, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday. “We immediately detected, tracked and monitored the launch, and shared related information among South Korea, the United [...]