SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Unification Minister nominee Chung Dong-young said Monday he does not agree with the view that North Korea is South Korea’s “main enemy,” instead calling the North a “threat.” Chung made the remarks during a parliamentary confirmation hearing as the former conservative Yoon Suk Yeol administration defined the North Korean [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit North Korea later this week, the North’s state media reported Wednesday. Lavrov will visit North Korea from Friday to Sunday at the invitation of the North Korean foreign ministry, the Korean Central News Agency said, without providing further details. Once in North [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has set up a new ministry in charge of emergency disaster management in a bid to better respond to natural disasters, South Korea’s unification ministry said Friday. A new government agency, tentatively named the disaster prevention ministry, was first identified in footage aired by North Korea’s state-run [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — TV footage showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un mourning over the coffins of soldiers who were believed to be killed during the Russia-Ukraine war was partly aimed at demanding Moscow provide rewards for Pyongyang, Seoul’s unification ministry said Tuesday. North Korea’s state media aired Monday footage of Kim honoring [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea fired around 10 artillery shells from its multiple rocket launcher system Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after the South conducted joint air drills with the United States and Japan. The North fired the shells toward the Yellow Sea at around 10 a.m. from the Sunan [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea will send 5,000 military construction workers and 1,000 sappers to Russia’s Kursk region, Russian media reports said Tuesday, while Moscow’s security chief visited Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The announcement came as Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu visited the North Korean capital on [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Police plan to dispatch mobile units to border areas to prevent activists from sending anti-North Korea leaflets across the border, the unification ministry said Monday after a pan-government meeting to discuss ways to curb “illegal” leaflet campaigns. The move came as President Lee Jae-myung ordered measures Saturday to prevent [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is stepping up anti-American indoctrination of students on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, state media showed Friday. “Education on anti-imperialism and anti-Americanism is being solidly carried out at all basic education units in Pyongyang, tailored to the emotional [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizire) — North Korea on Monday denounced a monitoring group on the enforcement of U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang for issuing a report on military cooperation between the North and Russia, calling the move a violation of a state’s sovereign rights. The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) on Thursday issued the first [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the European Union (EU) agreed Tuesday on the need to boost cooperation in responding to growing cyberthreats worldwide, including North Korea’s cryptocurrency theft, to ensure a safe and open cyberspace order, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. The two sides shared the understanding during their bilateral policy dialogue [...]