SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of South Koreans voiced the need for Seoul to independently build its own nuclear weapons, a survey showed Thursday, in the latest indication that the people are more open to atomic weapons amid growing military threats from North Korea. According to the poll of 1,000 [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry made public details of its report on North Korea’s human rights violations for the first time Thursday, highlighting widespread rights abuses by the North, such as public executions and torture. The 450-page report to be officially published Friday was written based on around 1,600 human [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has emphasized an appropriate dress code for its citizens to protect the ideology and culture of socialism as well as to prevent the loosening of social atmosphere. The Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the North’s ruling Worker’s Party, recently stressed that it was important for the citizens [...]
NEW YORK, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should be held accountable for North Korea’s gross human rights violations as the leader of the country, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has said after an informal session on the matter in the Security Council. “Kim Jong-un is the leader of [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided to increase the level of support for North Korean defectors’ resettlement to better protect their new-found livelihoods here, the unification ministry said Thursday. The ministry opted to raise the resettlement basic subsidy for North Korean defectors by 1 million won (US$760) to 9 million won per [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea was once again labeled one of the worst countries in terms of freedom, a recent report by a U.S.-funded freedom watchdog showed Friday. In an annual Freedom House report titled “Freedom in the World 2023,” the North received a combined freedom score of 3 out of 100 [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged combined air drills Monday, involving at least one U.S. nuclear-capable B-52H strategic bomber, Seoul’s defense ministry said, in the latest show of America’s military might against North Korea’s evolving military threats. The exercise took place over the Yellow Sea, mobilizing the bomber [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Sunday it has fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a lofted angle in a “sudden launching” drill aimed at ensuring the country’s powerful nuclear deterrent. “The drill was suddenly organized without previous notice under an emergency firepower combat standby order given at dawn of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a football match with his daughter in celebration of his late father Kim Jong-il’s birthday, state media reported Saturday. Kim and his daughter, known as Ju-ae, watched the match between officials of the Cabinet and the Ministry of National Defence on Friday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Tuesday unveiled the designs of a new stamp featuring the daughter of the North’s leader Kim Jong-un, known as Ju-ae, for the first time. The stamp designs uploaded on the website of the North’s Korea Stamp Corp. show photos of the North’s leader and his daughter [...]