SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s recent “reconnaissance satellite” development tests and leader Kim Jong-un’s subsequent visits to its space agency and long-range rocket test site could be carefully calibrated events to heap pressure on the United States, analysts said Friday. The chain of choreographed episodes signals Pyongyang has edged closer to making [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, in the recalcitrant regime’s eighth show of force this year. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch from around the Sunan area in Pyongyang at 7:52 a.m., and that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia’s attack on Ukraine this week could be a reminder of the grim reality for North Korea: A deal to bargain away its nuclear arms could prove to be a scrap of paper anytime in a world of power politics. Defying warnings and pleas, Russian President Vladimir Putin has [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s military massacred more than 1,100 South Korean Christians and Catholics during the 1950-53 Korean War, a state reconciliation panel said Tuesday. The North’s Korean People’s Army killed 1,026 Christians and 119 Catholics during its retreat from the South following an amphibious Incheon landing operation by United Nations [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of 4 South Korean students think that unification with North Korea is unnecessary, a survey showed Friday. In the online survey of 72,524 elementary, middle and high school students conducted by the education ministry and the unification ministry from Nov. 1 to Dec. 10, 61.2 percent replied [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s weekend launch of an “intermediate-and long-range” ballistic missile underscores the intransigent regime’s stated arms buildup in progress under a go-it-alone approach and its eagerness to tighten internal solidarity ahead of key political events, analysts here said Monday. In its seventh show of force this year, Pyongyang launched [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) into the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, raising fears that Pyongyang has inched toward its threatened suspension of a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the missile, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Ruling party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung said Sunday he would seek a “de facto state” of inter-Korean unification based on coexistence and mutual prosperity in a short-term and rather realistic goal if he gains power. Lee of the liberal Democratic Party made the remark during a visit to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government is preparing to launch a new team to step up support for North Korean defectors suffering from economic and psychological difficulties after resettlement here, officials said Thursday. The team — which will comprise of officials from different government agencies, including the unification ministry and the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has rejected a petition accusing the government of a human rights violation over its decision to revoke the license of an anti-North Korea group of defectors for sending propaganda leaflets across the border, sources said Sunday. The petition was filed with the National Human [...]