SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A U.N. point man on the human rights situation in North Korea welcomed the South Korean government’s decision to seek dialogue with Pyongyang on Friday, saying that it is a “reassuring step forward” lowering tensions between the two Koreas. Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana still emphasized that at the [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Unification Ministry on Wednesday approved Hyundai Asan Corp.’s bid to contact North Korea as the company seeks to visit the North next month to mark the anniversary of the death of its former chairman. The operator of the now-suspended inter-Korean tour to Mount Kumgang on North Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Police said Wednesday they began an investigation into a North Korean defector who now has returned home as she appeared in a Pyongyang-based propaganda piece lambasting the South. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said they are trying to find out how the woman, alias Lim Ji-hyun in the South, [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Asan Corp. on Tuesday asked the government to give permission to visit North Korea next month to mark the anniversary of the death of its former chairman, the company said. The memorial service for Chung Mong-hun, who spearheaded the now-suspended inter-Korean tour program in the North, had been [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military is mulling over partly financing major firepower projects with private funds, an official said Tuesday. South Korea is pushing for the establishment of a “three-axis” platform to help defend itself against North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile threats. The three elements are the Kill Chain pre-emptive [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Data published from Twitter earlier this week suggests some users have sent tweets about South Korean boy band EXO from North Korea, a country where enjoying South Korean pop culture could land you in jail. Over 11 million tweets were made about the popular South Korean boy band around [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The top nuclear envoy of South Korea will join a regional security conference to be held next week in Singapore, where he will discuss with his counterparts from the United States and Japan countermeasures against North Korea’s recent missile provocation, the foreign ministry said Friday. The Northeast Asia Cooperation [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Olympic body chief said Thursday it is too early to talk about a unified team or joint march between the two Koreas at the 2018 Winter Games because North Korea has yet to confirm its participation. Lee Kee-heung, president of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea said Tuesday that it will make an “important announcement” at 3 p.m. (Pyongyang time) after it launched a ballistic missile earlier in the day. North Korea will make a special announcement, the state-run radio station said, without elaborating. The North fired an unidentified ballistic missile in its [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday expressed concerns that some foreign media outlets’ “groundless” reports could hamper inter-Korean relations, apparently pointing to a Japanese report on Seoul’s alleged attempt to implement regime change in North Korea. Japan’s Asahi Shimbun said Monday that the administration of former South Korean Park Geun-hye attempted [...]