GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s cheerleaders visiting the South for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics staged a surprise performance Tuesday during their trip to a tourist attraction in Gangneung, a sub-host city of the Olympics. Some 80 members of the squad visited Ojukheon, the birth home of Yi I, a 16th [...]
SEOUL/PAJU, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean art troupe returned home Monday after holding two rare performances in South Korea in celebration of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The Samjiyon Orchestra crossed the military demarcation line at 11:25 a.m. to return home after a seven-day stay in the South, according to a pool report. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korean art troupe will come to Seoul Saturday to rehearse for its second and final performance in South Korea, the unification ministry said Friday. The 140-strong troupe, named the Samjiyon Orchestra, has been staying on the Mangyongbong-92 ferry, which is docked at the eastern port of Mukho, [...]
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Speculation is growing over Pyongyang’s true intentions behind the decision to send top political figures to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. North Korea’s de facto chief of state Kim Yong-nam is set to visit South Korea as part of the country’s Winter Olympics delegation, becoming one of the most prominent political [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has asked South Korea to supply fuel to its ship that carried the North’s art troupe to the South a day earlier as the ferry will be used for its lodging, Seoul’s unification ministry said Wednesday. The Samjiyon art troupe traveled to the South by ferry Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The top nuclear envoys of South Korea and the United States discussed ways to channel the reconciliatory mood created by North Korea’s participation in the upcoming Winter Olympics into resumption of talks aimed at “peacefully” resolving the nuclear stalemate, the foreign ministry said Monday. Lee Do-hoon, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, and his U.S. counterpart, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has been invited to participate in the Paralympic Games in South Korea next month, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said Friday. The IPC said that it has invited North Korea to take part in its first Winter Paralympics and offered two bipartite slots to athletes to compete [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of patients infected with H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, in North Korea rose to 110,000 last month, Voice of America reported Friday. Citing Gwendolyn Pang, who heads the Asian regional office of the International Federation of Red Cross, VOA’s Korean Service said 110,015 out of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s state media the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) revealed on January 31 that soccer academies will be established in Pyongyang and each of the country’s provinces come April. “The city of Pyongyang and all of the provinces will have soccer academies. Classes will be divided into elementary [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday a North Korean art troupe’s planned performances in the South will not involve any provision of financial rewards, such as performance fees. The North will send its 140-member Samjiyon art troupe, which includes an orchestra, to the South for a concert in Gangneung, a sub-host [...]