SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has reopened a cross-border communications channel with South Korea nearly two years after the shutdown of the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Two Koreas had their first contact via a hotline that has been suspended for 23 months on Wednesday. The surprising news came only hours after a senior North [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has said it could send a delegation to the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics, giving a boost to the bi-annual sporting event. In a New Year message on Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hinted at sending a delegation to South Korea during the upcoming Winter Olympics, while wishing [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who is widely known for his infamously barbaric and brutal ways, is attracting attention after being seen showing unusually friendly body language and behavior around his subordinates through state-owned media. Pictures of Kim Jong-un emerged soon after North Korea’s successful test launch of ballistic [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A growing number of North Korean key party and military officials has been fleeing the communist country to evade leader Kim Jong-un’s reign of terror, a source familiar with North Korean affairs said Monday. Kim has purged or executed many North Korean officials, Seoul’s intelligence agency earlier said, putting [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korea observer has insisted that up to one million North Korean elites enjoy luxurious lives in Pyongyang under Kim Jung-un’s rule of the communist country. Park Sung-jo, an economics professor at the Free University of Berlin, said in an interview with Radio Free Asia on April 8 that [...]