SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of 10 South Koreans see the need for Seoul to independently pursue its own nuclear weapons development program, a survey showed Monday, amid concerns over escalating military threats from Pyongyang and a lack of trust in denuclearization negotiations with North Korea. According to the Gallup Korea poll [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has released a pictorial book of gifts given to its late leader Kim Jong-il from foreign leaders and governments, including a basketball signed by former NBA superstar Michael Jordan, a Pyongyang propaganda website showed Monday. The 216-page book carries photos of various presents gifted to Kim, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine North Korean workers dispatched to Russia for dollar earnings defected to South Korea late last year amid Moscow’s protracted war with Ukraine, according to a professor in the South on Wednesday. The North Koreans, all men aged between 20s and 50s, came to the South in December 2022 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s state TV has aired a documentary film praising the country’s success in tackling the coronavirus pandemic last year amid efforts to prevent another outbreak. The documentary, aired on the Korean Central Television on Monday night, introduced Pyongyang’s antivirus measures since the country announced its first COVID-19 case [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean YouTuber is offering a peek into the daily life of Pyongyang residents. The YouTube channel Olivia Natasha – YuMi Space DPRK Daily offers video updates on daily life in North Korea. DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The channel, which launched in June [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean hacker group has attempted to steal user passwords with phishing mails by disguising itself as a domestic portal site, a cybersecurity firm said Monday. ESTsecurity recently published an analytical report on malicious code on its corporate blog. The newly-detected phishing emails used a “Daurn” domain that [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean drones’ infiltrations into South Korea’s airspace this week have demonstrated a new layer of complexity in its national security posture that has focused largely on the recalcitrant neighbor’s missile and nuclear threats rather than such small, hard-to-intercept flying objects, analysts said Tuesday. The South’s defense authorities were [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is likely to push forward with the development of its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons as well as reconnaissance satellites next year as Pyongyang seeks to strengthen its nuclear and missile capabilities, according to an expert Friday. “For the goal of the North Korean version of possessing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As a turbulent year in regional security, dotted with North Korea’s frantic missile launches amid stalled dialogue and complex geopolitics, draws to a close, uncertainty still looms large on the Korean Peninsula. This year, the Kim Jong-un regime fired more than 60 ballistic missiles into the ocean, a single-year [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Large shopping malls furnished with a variety of convenience facilities are enjoying rising popularity in North Korea as places to spend leisure time in everyday life. Highlighted in the December edition of North Korea’s monthly propaganda magazine Kumsu Kangsan were scenes of people shopping at the three-story Kwangbok Department [...]