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 [...]
BEIJING, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected troops in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, near the sensitive border with its traditional ally, North Korea, according to China’s state media on Friday. Xi inspected senior military officials and soldiers stationed in Harbin, Heilongjiang’s capital, and an outpost on Tuesday and Wednesday, and [...]
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 [...]
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s ambassador to Geneva reportedly downplayed U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s willingness to hold talks with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, as a gesture for campaign purposes. “It is up to the decision of my supreme leader whether he decides to meet or not, but I think his [...]