SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The top diplomats of South Korea and Denmark “strongly” condemned North Korea’s continued provocations on Friday, calling for Pyongyang to “fully” and “completely” comply with multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Danish counterpart Anders Samuelsen emphasized those points in a joint press statement issued [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A tour agency which has arranged tour programs to North Korea said Friday that the United States will ban its citizens from traveling to the North soon following the death of an American detainee in the repressive regime. “We have just been informed that the U.S. government will no [...]
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, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea released Sunday a synthesized video showing North Korean shooting athletes targeting American military forces, accusing the U.S. of threatening a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. The two-minute video, posted on North Korea’s propaganda website DPRK, starts with images of North Korean shooting athletes engaged in training. [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea called on North Korea on Friday to immediately release two of its nationals detained in the communist country on espionage charges. North Korea announced that it has arrested the two South Korean men on charges of espionage for the South’s state spy agency. “It’s very regrettable that the [...]