SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea held celebrations for the 110th birth anniversary of its late founder Kim Il-sung on Friday evening with fireworks and a mass dance performance in its capital, footage from state media showed. Throngs of masked North Koreans staged large-scale dance celebrations at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang to [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has dismissed local civic groups’ request to block the sales and distribution of memoirs of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung, judicial sources said Sunday. According to the sources, the Seoul Western District Court rejected Thursday an injunction sought by several conservative organizations, including the New Paradigm [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s biggest bookstore chain has ceased sales of memoirs of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung following a legal and political controversy surrounding the eight-volume series. On Wednesday, a local publishing company said it has begun selling the memoirs, titled “With the Century,” here for the first time since [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has reversed the prison sentence delivered to a man more than 40 years ago for watching North Korean propaganda TV content and praising the communist country’s late founder, judicial sources said Saturday. The man was initially convicted of violating the now-defunct anti-communist security law and served [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – January 8, 2018 marks the North Korean Fearless Leader’s 34th birthday, but the wishing of many happy returns appears to be happening only behind closed doors as all remains quiet on the Northern front. In the pre-noon hours of the day, none of the various mouthpieces of the communist [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung Hwa said regarding author Han Kang’s New York Times essay titled ‘While the US Talks of War, South Korea Shudders’ that “as a writer she is entitled to her own opinion, but her understanding of history and the way she described it is [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – What the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, learned from his forefathers is not just their autocratic means to control the public – he also inherited their plump physique that has often been subject of mockery outside the country’s isolated regime. A 1960 article by a South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea plans to hold an international event in August 2017 to bolster the personality cult of three generations of late founder Kim Il-sung’s family, Pyongyang’s state media said Tuesday. The North plans to hold a gathering to praise the accomplishments of the Kim family at Mt. Baekdu, the [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A medal that was apparently awarded by Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader of North Korea and grandfather of current leader Kim Jong-un, was found on a Mexican e-commerce website, Vivauncios. According to Vivauncios, Miguel Alba, a former professor at a university in Puebla, posted the medal with an asking [...]
SEOUL, Dec.9 (Korea Bizwire) – A parody video of North Korea’s founding father Kim Il-sung, the late leader Kim Jong-il and current leader Kim Jong-un dancing is gaining popularity on YouTube. The 25 second long video clip named ‘I got it from my ABAY (meaning ‘father’ in North Korean)’ had reached 171,013 views as of [...]