SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry on Tuesday cited the need for peace building and public safety as the reasons for its recent call on civic groups to halt campaigns to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets to North Korea. The stance came a day after the ministry expressed “regret” and “strongly” urged a halt [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry voiced regret Monday over a recent anti-North Korea leaflet campaign staged by a group of families of those abducted by North Korea, “strongly” calling on them to suspend the campaign. Families of abduction victims launched four large latex balloons carrying leaflets into North Korea from the [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has removed “unification” from the name of a building on the North’s side of the truce village of Panmunjom, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday, as Pyongyang has stepped up its campaign to redefine relations with Seoul as hostile. In August last year, North Korea replaced the signboard [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An envisioned U.S. national defense strategy may lead South Korea and the United States to explore “greater flexibility” of the 28,500-strong U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to help keep an assertive China in check, a former senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. Randall Schriver, former assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific [...]
WASHINGTON, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is projected to have 50 ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, by 2035, an intelligence agency of the U.S. Defense Department said in a report Tuesday. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released the report on the current and future threats to the [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of monthly visitors to a park along the inter-Korean border has more than doubled this year after the opening of a Starbucks store there late last year, officials said Tuesday. Aegibong Peace Ecopark in Gimpo, just northwest of Seoul, saw an average of 32,379 monthly visitors from [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of Russia’s World War II victory over Nazi Germany, pledging steady development of relations with Moscow. Accompanied by his daughter and top party and state officials, Kim visited the Russian Embassy [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Thursday touted its mutual defense treaty with Russia as a “guarantee” safeguarding peace and security in Eurasia, marking the sixth anniversary of leader Kim Jong-un’s first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Rodong Simun, a mainstream newspaper published by North Korea’s Workers’ Party, carried the [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has hosted the first large-scale gathering of instructors for a nationwide children’s union, emphasizing their role in fostering young people’s loyalty to leader Kim Jong-un, state media reported Monday. The large-scale lecture for instructors from across the country was held in Pyongyang from Wednesday to Saturday for [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea reported Friday that brisk preparations were under way for the start of the new academic year in April, including the nationwide distribution of school uniforms and other items. The Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s main newspaper for the general public, published the report as the country prepares to [...]