SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.N. aviation agency has voiced grave concerns over North Korea’s recent jamming of GPS navigation signals and called for measures to prevent a recurrence, the South Korean foreign ministry said Monday. During its latest council session held in Montreal, Canada, from March 10 to April 4, the International [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea was behind a massive distribution of phishing emails to South Koreans between late last year and early this year, the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) said Tuesday. The agency said a North Korean hacking group sent 126,266 fake emails to 17,744 people in South Korea from last [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Around six months after deploying its troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, North Korea appears to have lost thousands of young men but received rare military technology and economic aid as a reward to potentially offset international sanctions. In October, North Korea dispatched more than 10,000 troops to [...]
BEIJING, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese officials tasked with managing a memorial facility for troops who fought in the 1950-53 Korean War returned to North Korea for the first time in five years, the Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang said Monday. According to the embassy’s website, 14 Chinese officials arrived in North Korea last Monday [...]
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A White House official reiterated the United States’ commitment to the “complete” denuclearization of North Korea on Monday, after Pyongyang fired multiple ballistic missiles in its first known launch since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January. “We’re aware of the missile launches and refer you to U.S. [...]
JINCHEON, South Korea, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul was selected Monday as the South Korean candidate city for a joint Olympic bid with North Korea. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) said Seoul was chosen over Busan as the candidate city for the 2032 Summer Games at its general assembly at the National [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s military has been switching off its loudspeaker broadcasts directed at South Korea in the border area in response to a similar decision by the South ahead of an inter-Korean summit this week, a government source said Monday. “The North Korean military had about 40 loudspeakers for anti-Seoul propaganda in the vicinity of the military demarcation line (MDL), [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leaflets criticizing the South were spotted for a second consecutive day in South Korea’s border towns Thursday as the rivals escalated their psychological warfare across the border in the wake of the communist nation’s recent nuclear test. “We detected the North Korean military spreading anti-South leaflets again [...]