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 [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has placed a large number of propaganda slogans and catchphrases all over the country to help build up the personality cult of its leader Kim Jong-un. Detailed examination by Yonhap News Agency of some 1,000 pictures taken from May 4 to 24 in Pyongyang and Sinuiju, revealed [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean party officials have visited Vietnam and Laos, the North’s state media said Tuesday, apparently as part of the North’s diplomatic effort to break the international sanctions regime. The delegation, led by Choe Thae-bok, a vice chairman of the ruling party’s central committee, arrived in Vientiane on Monday [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s propaganda outlet on Wednesday hailed Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s claim that South Korea should pay more for the upkeep of American troops on its soil. DPRK Today called Trump a “wise” politician, saying that if the United States withdraws its troops from the Korean Peninsula, the [...]
BEIJING/SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Ri Su-yong, vice chairman of the North Korean ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, arrived in Beijing Tuesday in the first visit by a ranking official since Pyongyang’s defiant fourth nuclear test in January that soured bilateral relations. Ri arrived in the Chinese capital with a large entourage of officials [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staffs revealed that a North Korean missile launch, which is assumed to have taken place at 05:20 local time, has failed. The launch presumably took place in the Wonsan area. Wonsan is a port city and naval base located on the eastern side of the [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s unification ministry said Monday that North Korea appears ready to kick off another campaign designed to push its people to work harder starting in June. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that the “200-day campaign of loyalty” will be launched in a bid to implement the five-year [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has instructed North Koreans using Chinese mobile phones to be punished for treason in order to fend off defections and internal information leaks to the outside world, a Seoul-based news outlet specializing in North Korea reported Friday. “Kim Jong-un recently issued an order to [...]