SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has actively launched a nonsmoking campaign and even set up research stations across the country to get people to stop smoking, according to North Korean media reports. In a report picked up in Seoul, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said non-smoking research stations have [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Won Sei-hoon, the former chief of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), revealed that he ordered a campaign against the spreading celebrity of Ri Sol-ju, the first lady of North Korea. Won is currently on trial for interfering in the 2012 South Korean presidential election by ordering an online smear [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea held a mass celebration in the center of Pyongyang on Tuesday to mark the end of its ruling party congress that conferred on its leader Kim Jong-un a new title. The four-day congress that concluded on Monday gave Kim the chairmanship of the ruling Workers’ Party of [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Sunday that North Korea’s offer for inter-Korean dialogue is merely a propaganda ploy that lacks sincerity, calling on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un proposed holding military talks between the two Koreas in a bid to ease tensions along [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has heightened surveillance along its border with China and beefed up monitoring of its people ahead of the ruling party’s congress next week, a source familiar with North Korea affairs said Friday. With the North’s rare party congress a week away, the country has moved to restrict [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – University students put on a performance in downtown Seoul on April 25, 2016, acting out jailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The performance is part of a three-day campaign arranged by university students across the country to demand that Kim be brought before the International Criminal Court for his [...]
SEOUL, Jan.15 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Daily NK, an online newspaper specializing in North Korea, Kim Jong-un’s personal staff, the members of the 5th division, lead privileged lives, and with the young leader’s halo shining behind them, they even look down at Hwang Byung-seo, who is known to be the second in command in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - North Koreans have shown enthusiastic support for the nuclear scientists and officials who contributed to the North’s latest nuclear test, the North’s media said Thursday. Waving decorative flowers on streets in Pyongyang, about 100,000 North Koreans cheered a procession of vehicles carrying the scientists and officials, according to the North’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed efforts Friday to improve ties with South Korea, saying that he is open to talks with Seoul in an open-minded manner for unification. In his New Year’s message delivered live on the North’s television, Kim said North Korea is open to having candid [...]
SEOUL, Dec.28 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-un the North Korean leader who is also known to be a chain smoker, was spotted smoking a cigarette and then throwing the butt away inside the subway. The North Korean Central News Agency reported footage of Kim Jong-un participating in the test drive of a subway developed with [...]