SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has dismissed local civic groups’ request to block the sales and distribution of memoirs of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung, judicial sources said Sunday. According to the sources, the Seoul Western District Court rejected Thursday an injunction sought by several conservative organizations, including the New Paradigm [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1 in 5 children under the age of 5 in North Korea suffer from stunted growth, and the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the trend for some years to come, an international report showed Wednesday. The child stunting rate in the impoverished state was [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is actively pursuing the modernization of education evaluation methods by introducing artificial intelligence (AI) for foreign language tests. Echo of Unification, a North Korean radio station that broadcasts propaganda towards South Korea, said on Tuesday that Pyongsong Normal University has created a foreign language exam using AI [...]
VATICAN, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Pope Francis has expressed his willingness again to visit North Korea as he sympathized with the Korean people long separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, a senior South Korean bishop said Monday. The pope made the remarks during a meeting in the Vatican with Lazarus You Heung-sik, who heads [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s recent decision to skip this year’s Tokyo Summer Games will rob South Korea of a chance to revive inter-Korean sports cooperation at a time when Seoul is trying to salvage fading hopes of co-hosting the 2032 Olympics with Pyongyang. North Korea announced Tuesday that it will not [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean soldiers are failing to receive even a modicum of human rights protection, as advised by the international community, during incarceration. The Center for Military Human Rights Korea, a civic group, held a conference in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss the results of an investigation into human rights [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ordered North Korea and leader Kim Jong-un to compensate a family member of a South Korean who was abducted to the North during the 1950-53 Korean War. The plaintiff, identified by his surname Choi, filed a damages suit in December over the policeman father who [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has canceled the annual Pyongyang Marathon due to the coronavirus pandemic, a tour agency has said. The event, officially known as the Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon, was scheduled to be held in the North’s capital from April 5-11. “The 2021 Pyongyang Marathon has been officially canceled,” Koryo [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean kindergartens and elementary schools have started to use robots for education. Voice of Korea, Pyongyang’s state-run radio station, posted a video on its official website on Thursday in which students were seen speaking to a robot while looking up at the robot’s ‘face’, or scanning cards with the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s state media have used “president” as the official English title of leader Kim Jong-un, instead of the previous title of “chairman,” in what experts see as intended to rev up the image of a “normal state.” The North’s Korean Central News Agency used the new title for [...]