NEW YORK, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should be held accountable for North Korea’s gross human rights violations as the leader of the country, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has said after an informal session on the matter in the Security Council. “Kim Jong-un is the leader of [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided to increase the level of support for North Korean defectors’ resettlement to better protect their new-found livelihoods here, the unification ministry said Thursday. The ministry opted to raise the resettlement basic subsidy for North Korean defectors by 1 million won (US$760) to 9 million won per [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea was once again labeled one of the worst countries in terms of freedom, a recent report by a U.S.-funded freedom watchdog showed Friday. In an annual Freedom House report titled “Freedom in the World 2023,” the North received a combined freedom score of 3 out of 100 [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged combined air drills Monday, involving at least one U.S. nuclear-capable B-52H strategic bomber, Seoul’s defense ministry said, in the latest show of America’s military might against North Korea’s evolving military threats. The exercise took place over the Yellow Sea, mobilizing the bomber [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Sunday it has fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a lofted angle in a “sudden launching” drill aimed at ensuring the country’s powerful nuclear deterrent. “The drill was suddenly organized without previous notice under an emergency firepower combat standby order given at dawn of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a football match with his daughter in celebration of his late father Kim Jong-il’s birthday, state media reported Saturday. Kim and his daughter, known as Ju-ae, watched the match between officials of the Cabinet and the Ministry of National Defence on Friday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Tuesday unveiled the designs of a new stamp featuring the daughter of the North’s leader Kim Jong-un, known as Ju-ae, for the first time. The stamp designs uploaded on the website of the North’s Korea Stamp Corp. show photos of the North’s leader and his daughter [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for bolstering the country’s military strength at an unprecedented pace, during a photo session with the participants of a military parade held earlier this week, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday. Speaking on Thursday, Kim stressed that the prosperity of the North depends on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday announced its first independent sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s cryptocurrency theft and other illicit cyber activities. South Korea has decided to impose its own sanctions on four North Korean tech experts and seven organizations under the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), the country’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has staged a massive military parade in Pyongyang to mark the 75th founding anniversary of its armed forces, its state media confirmed Thursday, describing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on display as representing the country’s “maximum nuclear attack capabilities.” Its leader Kim Jong-un attended the nighttime event, held [...]