SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Countries worldwide scrambled to understand the sudden death of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, in 1994, with the United States and Russia questioning the isolated state’s future under his son and successor, Kim Jong-il, declassified diplomatic dossiers showed Friday. Kim Il-sung, the founder and first leader of North Korea, [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will work toward the prompt and safe repatriation of two North Koreans who were found adrift in waters south of the inter-Korean maritime border earlier this month, the unification ministry said Friday. “(The government) will have consultations with related bodies for the North Korean residents’ prompt and [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have additionally dispatched at least 3,000 soldiers to Russia in January and February in support of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, South Korea’s military said Thursday. The assessment came amid concerns that North Korea and Russia’s deepening military alignment could lead to Moscow transferring advanced arms [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Thursday disclosed what appears to be an airborne early warning and control aircraft for the first time and said leader Kim Jong-un supervised tests of “suicide attack drones” equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published photos of the airplane while [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Navy held a ceremony Wednesday to honor sailors killed during the 2010 sinking of the Cheonan corvette by a North Korean attack in the Yellow Sea. The 1,200-ton warship sank near the western Northern Limit Line, a de facto inter-Korean maritime border, in March 2010, after a North [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The veterans ministry said Tuesday it will hold a lighting ceremony in Seoul this week to honor South Korean service members killed during military clashes with North Korea while defending the western maritime border. The three-day ceremony will begin Wednesday evening at Cheonggye Plaza in central Seoul, illuminating 55 [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has successfully test-fired its latest surface-to-air missile system, which was recently put into full-scale production, as leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the test, state media reported Friday. The test-firing was conducted by the country’s Missile Administration on Thursday to “examine the comprehensive performance” of the missile system being [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected a military dockyard in the western port city of Nampho and ordered a rapid increase in shipbuilding capacity to bolster its naval forces, state media reported Friday. Kim gave “field guidance” at the Nampho Dockyard on Thursday and inspected its various production [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Two North Koreans aboard a wooden boat drifting in the Yellow Sea were discovered earlier this month and are now under questioning, military officials said Friday. The military took the two men into custody after a P-3 maritime patrol aircraft discovered the boat in waters 170 kilometers west of [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry is expected to resume its tour program to the truce village of Panmunjom on the inter-Korean border next month following its suspension in late 2023 due to military tensions, officials said Tuesday. “With the goal of resuming the tour program to Panmunjom next month, (the ministry) [...]