SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Friday said defections by North Korean officials indicate that internal insecurity has increased in the communist country as the reclusive country’s leader Kim Jong-un is strengthening his iron-fisted rule. Seoul’s unification ministry said that a series of defections by North Koreans are taking place at a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s leader seems to be obsessed with erasing all remaining vestiges of his uncle Jang Song-thaek, who he executed in 2013 for treason, a source familiar with the North’s affairs said Tuesday. The North’s leader Kim Jong-un has reacted sensitively to anything related to Jang, ordering overseas restaurants’ [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has publicly executed some 60 people so far this year as the reclusive country’s leader Kim Jong-un strengthens his reign of terror, a source said Friday. The move aimed at putting fear into the people comes as more ordinary North Koreans are expressing dissatisfaction as Pyongyang has [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Good news for the bounty hunters out there: $50 million is up for grabs for capturing Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s supreme leader. A North Korean defectors’ organization dropped 100,000 copies of the leaflet shown in the photo in North Korea on Saturday. The ‘wanted’ leaflet makes note of the [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has launched a total of 31 ballistic missiles in the past five years under Kim Jong-un, twice the number of missiles test-fired when his late father was in power, the defense ministry here said Wednesday. North Korea has test-fired 16 short-range Scuds with a range of 300 [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday warned it will take “physical action” against South Korea and the United States over the allies’ decision to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. North Korea’s military said it will strike the moment the two countries decide on where to place [...]
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States imposed sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over human rights abuses on Wednesday in an unprecedented, highly symbolic measure underscoring Washington’s determination to ramp up pressure on Pyongyang. Ten other top officials as well as five state agencies, including the National Defense Commission, which has [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s unification ministry on Thursday said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has completed the process of taking absolute control over the country through the latest parliamentary gathering. On Wednesday, the Supreme People’s Assembly, the country’s rubber-stamp parliament, selected the North’s leader as the chairman of the newly created [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea appears to be undergoing difficulties in the import of some machinery equipment due to the stringent international sanctions slapped on the country earlier this year. The news was disclosed Tuesday in an article by the country’s main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, which introduced an army tree nursery on [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea said Friday that South Korean President Park Geun-hye should respond to its offer for dialogue, adding Pyongyang will seek other partners if Seoul continues to rejects its talks offer. According to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang’s Council for National Reconciliation (CNR) said there [...]