SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for bolstering the country’s military strength at an unprecedented pace, during a photo session with the participants of a military parade held earlier this week, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday. Speaking on Thursday, Kim stressed that the prosperity of the North depends on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday announced its first independent sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s cryptocurrency theft and other illicit cyber activities. South Korea has decided to impose its own sanctions on four North Korean tech experts and seven organizations under the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), the country’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has staged a massive military parade in Pyongyang to mark the 75th founding anniversary of its armed forces, its state media confirmed Thursday, describing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on display as representing the country’s “maximum nuclear attack capabilities.” Its leader Kim Jong-un attended the nighttime event, held [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of 10 South Koreans see the need for Seoul to independently pursue its own nuclear weapons development program, a survey showed Monday, amid concerns over escalating military threats from Pyongyang and a lack of trust in denuclearization negotiations with North Korea. According to the Gallup Korea poll [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has released a pictorial book of gifts given to its late leader Kim Jong-il from foreign leaders and governments, including a basketball signed by former NBA superstar Michael Jordan, a Pyongyang propaganda website showed Monday. The 216-page book carries photos of various presents gifted to Kim, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine North Korean workers dispatched to Russia for dollar earnings defected to South Korea late last year amid Moscow’s protracted war with Ukraine, according to a professor in the South on Wednesday. The North Koreans, all men aged between 20s and 50s, came to the South in December 2022 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s state TV has aired a documentary film praising the country’s success in tackling the coronavirus pandemic last year amid efforts to prevent another outbreak. The documentary, aired on the Korean Central Television on Monday night, introduced Pyongyang’s antivirus measures since the country announced its first COVID-19 case [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean YouTuber is offering a peek into the daily life of Pyongyang residents. The YouTube channel Olivia Natasha – YuMi Space DPRK Daily offers video updates on daily life in North Korea. DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The channel, which launched in June [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean hacker group has attempted to steal user passwords with phishing mails by disguising itself as a domestic portal site, a cybersecurity firm said Monday. ESTsecurity recently published an analytical report on malicious code on its corporate blog. The newly-detected phishing emails used a “Daurn” domain that [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean drones’ infiltrations into South Korea’s airspace this week have demonstrated a new layer of complexity in its national security posture that has focused largely on the recalcitrant neighbor’s missile and nuclear threats rather than such small, hard-to-intercept flying objects, analysts said Tuesday. The South’s defense authorities were [...]