SEOUL, Feb.1 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 20 percent of North Korean defectors who resettled in South Korea said they have thought about returning to their country of origin, a survey showed on Wednesday. According to the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights’ survey of 415 North Korean defectors living in the South, 22.9 [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States has withdrawn former White House official Victor Cha from consideration for ambassador to South Korea, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The official on the White House National Security Council confirmed the decision, which raises new concerns about the Donald Trump administration’s policy toward Seoul and Pyongyang. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is agonizing over whether it send refined petroleum products to North Korea for upcoming joint events amid tough international sanctions over Pyongayng’s missile tests, officials said Sunday. “We told the North to take charge of supplying the electricity necessary to hold the joint cultural events but received an answer that it is difficult to stably supply power to the facility built by [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s figure skating pairs team of Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik won the bronze medal on Friday at the last-minute international rehearsal before the next month’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics. At the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, held in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, the duo earned a personal-best [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean officials who recently inspected a ski resort in North Korea found the facilities are in a good enough condition to host joint ski training ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, a government official said Friday. The two Koreas agreed last week to hold cultural events at Mt. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha used her attendance at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, to promote the upcoming Winter Olympics as a chance to ease tensions with North Korea, the foreign ministry said Friday. “Kang explained the government’s efforts to lessen tension on the Korean [...]
INCHEON, South Korea, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is expected to send two athletes to the upcoming PyeongChang winter Paralympic Games, following its decision to participate in the multi-sport event, which will be held in the South, Seoul’s sports minister said Thursday. “I expect two North Korean athletes to attend the PyeongChang Parlympics. Their participation will help the event organizers hold the Paralympic Games more peacefully,” Do Jong-whan, minister [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans support the two Koreas marching together at the opening ceremonies of the PyeongChang Olympics, but many still oppose the idea of a unified ice hockey team, a new survey has found. According to survey findings released by the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has suggested that a North Korean art troupe hold one of its two proposed performances on the eve of the Feb. 9-28 PyeongChang Winter Olympics or on opening day, a senior government official said Tuesday. In a recent inter-Korean meeting, the North agreed to send a 140-member [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean delegation is set to travel to North Korea on Tuesday to inspect the venues where the two Koreas will hold joint cultural and sports events to celebrate the upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The visit by 12 officials follows a North Korean team’s two-day stay in [...]