SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Monday condemned Japan’s move to accelerate its planned acquisition of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States as an “arrogant choice,” warning that it will heighten regional tensions. Earlier this month, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said Tokyo aims to purchase the missiles as early as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s imports of luxury goods from China reached US$28.5 million last year, despite pandemic border control and international sanctions, data from China’s customs office showed Friday. Except for a temporary dip during the pandemic in 2021, the aggregate value of luxury goods imported from China to North [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –North Korea has delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia in recent weeks for use in Ukraine, a White House official said Friday, lambasting burgeoning cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow as a threat to regional stability. In a press briefing, John Kirby, National Security [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is “on pace” to deploy sufficient nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to overcome the U.S. missile defense and may be preparing for a nuclear test to enable tactical nuclear operations, a congressional report showed Thursday. The Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States issued [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Many North Koreans appear to have been repatriated from China, the unification ministry said Friday after a recent news report that about 600 North Koreans have forcibly been sent back home. “It appears to be true that many North Korean residents in three northeastern Chinese provinces have been repatriated,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry said Thursday it is working to verify speculation that China sent back hundreds of North Korean defectors earlier this week, stressing that any North Korean refugees should not be repatriated to the North against their will. China forcibly repatriated around 600 North Korean defectors detained in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin have pledged to move relations between the two countries further forward as they exchanged messages marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties after a summit last month, Pyongyang’s state media reported Thursday. Kim expressed his firm belief that North [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s propaganda outlets on Thursday issued a barrage of insults against South Korea’s point man on inter-Korean affairs, calling him a “madman” and the worst-ever “traitor.” North Korea has often denounced South Korea’s unification ministry. But it marked the first time North Korea lashed out at Unification Minister [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The reigniting of the Israel-Hamas conflict, coupled with Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, could shift the United States’ attention further away from North Korea’s nuclear quandary, analysts said Tuesday. The conflict flared up following the Palestinian militant group’s deadly surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, as Washington’s stated commitment [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea may stage various provocations, including a nuclear test, to divert its public’s attention from the country’s ongoing food crisis, South Korea’s defense ministry said Tuesday. The ministry made the assessment in a policy report for a parliamentary audit amid growing tensions after North Korea revised its constitution [...]