SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The front-line deployment of North Korean troops in support of Russia’s war effort in Ukraine would pose significant risks that extend beyond the battlefield to impact the security environment on the Korean Peninsula, also marking a significant development since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, analysts said. Concerns [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has notably increased his public activities related to the military over the past three months, according to a new analysis by the Korea Institute for National Unification, a think tank in Seoul. In a report titled “Analysis of the North Korean Leadership’s Public Activities [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea warned Sunday that a “physical clash and war” have become a matter of time on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of the scrapping of an inter-Korean military tension reduction accord, threatening that South Korea will face “total collapse” if it undertakes any hostile act. A North [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 70 earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or stronger were detected on the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding waters last year, a level similar to the yearly average over the past 20 years, the state weather agency said Sunday. The 2021 figure is up from 68 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia’s attack on Ukraine this week could be a reminder of the grim reality for North Korea: A deal to bargain away its nuclear arms could prove to be a scrap of paper anytime in a world of power politics. Defying warnings and pleas, Russian President Vladimir Putin has [...]
Washington, DC, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The upcoming World Summit 2022 (Summit for Peace on the Korean Peninsula) will gather world leaders and a worldwide virtual audience around topics related to peaceful reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula. The Feb. 10-13 World Summit 2022, held in Seoul, South Korea, is sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation [...]
Washington, DC, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) is pleased to announce a series of Global Forums to be held Feb. 1-3, 2022 on the theme of bringing peace on the Korean Peninsula. The Forums are part of the upcoming World Summit 2022. They are organized by UPF’s seven Peace Associations as [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of every 10 American adults believe the United States should get involved when and if there is an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula, a survey showed Thursday. In an annual survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 63 percent of respondents said they would [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first integrated analysis system for the assessment of various factors that bring about an increase in the density of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere over the Korean Peninsula has been developed. A research team from the Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Environmental Studies said Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of agricultural products have skyrocketed following 54 days of disastrous summer weather that brought severe monsoon rains as well as five typhoons across the Korean peninsula. Experts argue that this is just the beginning, warning that an unprecedented scale of climate change will sweep across South Korea. Hot [...]