SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 1,500 North Korean soldiers who were believed to be additionally deployed to Russia have been already on front lines to aid Russia’s war against Ukraine, a South Korean lawmaker who recently visited Kyiv said Wednesday, citing Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency. Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the ruling People Power [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A China-based tour agency has begun taking bookings for an international marathon in Pyongyang next month, marking the latest sign of North Korea reopening to foreign tourists. Koryo Tours, which specializes in North Korean tours, has recently begun taking bookings on its website for the amateur competition in the [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier caught alive by Ukraine has told a South Korean lawmaker that he wants to go to South Korea, asking whether he could “live as I wish with the rights” he hoped for once in Seoul, according to the lawmaker Tuesday. Rep. Yu Yong-weon made the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has completed the building of a general hospital in Pyongyang after five years of construction and plans to open it in October to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), according to state media Friday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have deployed additional troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, although the number of recently deployed troops is being assessed, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday. “Following about a monthlong lull, North Korean troops were placed back in the frontline region of Kursk starting in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A high-ranking delegation from North Korea’s Workers’ Party has arrived in Moscow for a visit at the invitation of Russia’s ruling party, state media reported Tuesday. The delegation, led by Ri Hi-yong, a member of the party’s Central Committee Politburo, landed in Moscow the previous day at the invitation [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine has expressed his wish to go to South Korea, a news report said Wednesday, in what would be the first known case for a North Korean captive to voice an intent to defect to the South. A North Korean [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled a construction plan to expand the capital, Pyongyang, eastward, vowing to refurbish dilapidated suburban areas, state media reported Monday. Kim announced the plan in his speech during a groundbreaking ceremony the previous day for the construction of 10,000 flats in Pyongyang’s Hwasong [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has paid his respects at the mausoleum of his father, late leader Kim Jong-il, on the anniversary of his birthday, state media reported Monday, marking his first reported visit to the family mausoleum on the late leader’s birth anniversary in four years. Kim visited [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign tour agents have entered North Korea for the first time since it closed its borders to tourism in 2020 due to COVID-19, to inspect new tourism sites, a tour agency’s website said Friday, amid signs of Pyongyang reopening to foreign tourists. Koryo Tours’ staff crossed into North Korea’s [...]