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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Tuesday denounced Israel over its escalating conflict with the Hamas militant group, saying it is the “consequence of Israel’s ceaseless criminal actions” against the people of Palestine. The criticism marked Pyongyang’s first response to the conflict after Hamas launched rocket attacks on Israel during a major [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new Defense Minister Shin Won-sik vowed Tuesday to push for the suspension of the 2018 inter-Korean military tension reduction agreement, citing its impact on limiting Seoul’s surveillance capabilities against North Korean military activities. Shin made the remarks in his first meeting with reporters after taking office on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean official on Tuesday called the country’s military spy satellite an “indispensable strategic option” to counter the United States, which is “getting hell-bent on space militarization.” Following two botched attempts to launch the military spy satellite, named the Malligyong-1, mounted on the Chollima-1 rocket in May and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Tuesday lauded leader Kim Jong-un for “exceptionally” strengthening the country’s combat power as Pyongyang marked the 78th founding anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party. The Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the North’s ruling party, said Kim “exceptionally strengthened the combat power” over the past decade to [...]