SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has supplied around 6.5 million artillery shells of various calibers to Russia to support its war with Ukraine, along with 600 missile launchers and weapons systems, a Ukrainian intelligence agency has said. The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (FISU) disclosed the information Monday (local time) in response [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Unification Minister nominee Chung Dong-young said Monday he does not agree with the view that North Korea is South Korea’s “main enemy,” instead calling the North a “threat.” Chung made the remarks during a parliamentary confirmation hearing as the former conservative Yoon Suk Yeol administration defined the North Korean [...]
PARIS, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — For generations, Mount Kumgang — or “Diamond Mountain” — has captivated the Korean imagination. Its jagged peaks, mist-covered valleys, and shimmering pools have inspired artists, poets, monks, and pilgrims alike. Now, this iconic landscape has earned a new distinction: a place on the UNESCO World Heritage list. At its 47th [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has formally legalized cosmetic surgery for aesthetic purposes under a little-known law dating back to 2016, newly revealed documents show. While the law permits a broad range of procedures to enhance physical appearance, it also imposes strict restrictions on surgeries deemed to pose security or ideological risks. According [...]
GIMPO, South Korea, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Not long ago, the western fringes of South Korea near the inter-Korean border were anything but peaceful. Night and day, the air reverberated with North Korean loudspeakers blaring a relentless mix of metallic screeches and propaganda across the Han River estuary — a psychological barrage that left [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has informed the U.S.-led U.N. Command (UNC) of its plans to build fortifications inside the border between the two Koreas, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday, marking the first notification of its kind in more than six months. The North notified the multinational command tasked with monitoring inter-Korean [...]
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 [...]