“Kim Jong-un, the Chairman of North Korea’s National Defense Commission, appears to have a complex due to his young age as the leader of North Korea. His father Kim Jong-il began ruling North Korea in his early 30s, while Kim began at the age of 29. He is young for a leader, and appears ill [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has executed its defense chief on charges of treason, South Korea’s spy agency said Wednesday, in the latest sign of a reign of terror by leader Kim Jong-un. Hyon Yong-chol, the chief of North Korea’s People’s Armed Forces, was executed by firing squad using an anti-aircraft gun [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited a cosmetics factory in Pyongyang on February 4 and rebuked factory personnel over the quality of the factory’s cosmetic products. Kim admonished employees over the poor quality of the North Korean products compared to foreign cosmetics, saying that “foreign eyeliners and mascaras stay intact even [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Rodong Shinmun, North Korea’s state daily, reported that its supreme leader Kim Jong-un flew over the capital city of Pyongyang to monitor a new large-scale housing complex being built for scientists on February 15. The released photos show Kim enjoying a bird’s-eye view of the project from his luxurious plane. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Gimhae Arts and Sports Center’s Yunseul Gallery is holding an exhibit entitled ‘Asia Independent Art’ until the end of February, announced the gallery on January 27. The painting above, titled ‘AK47girl-wave,’ is by Taiwanese artist Chen Ching-Yao, and is one of the works featured in the exhibition. Some controversies arose [...]
“I don’t know enough about the politics there to know what that means for the people, you know, but I do hope that whatever is best for the people will happen.” “I’m glad that the dust has settled on the movie (The Interview) and we’re moving on from that because I’m so excited about this [...]
BEIJING, Dec 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Hundreds of thousands of Chinese Web users have flocked to illegal video-streaming sites to see the “The Interview,” a Sony Pictures parody film about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The satire film, which debuted in some 300 theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, has [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The management agency of South Korean pop singer Yoon Mi-rae said Friday that it will take legal action against Sony Pictures Entertainment for allegedly using one of her songs in a controversial movie without permission. “The Interview,” a comedy about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, hit about 320 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — News reports said that Kim Jong-un, the strongman of the world’s most intriguing hermit kingdom, North Korea, is, interestingly, an avid fan of Manchester United and its superstar Wayne Rooney. Some of Britain’s local news sources including Manchester’s local newspaper, “Manchester Evening News” and “Mirror” reported on August 27 that Kim [...]