INCHEON, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Elementary schoolchildren on Baengyeong Island, located a stone’s throw from the maritime military demarcation line between the two Koreas, have sent handwritten letters to the U.S. embassy in Seoul for the soon-to-visit President Donald Trump, asking that “There be no war”. A total of 83 letters from 83 children [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has sold fishing rights in the East Sea to China, in addition to the ones it sold in the Yellow Sea, a government source said Thursday. The source from the intelligence agency said US$75 million coming from these fishing license sales annually goes to North Korean leader [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Thursday threatened to make a “merciless” retaliation against South Korea, claiming that Seoul repeatedly violated its territorial waters and airspace off its western coast. South Korea’s reconnaissance drones made flights over the Yellow Sea along the de facto western maritime boundary on Tuesday and intruded three [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Tours to the Joint Security Area (JSA), Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), and Northern Limit Line (NLL) remain consistently popular among foreign visitors. According to Cosmojin, a Korean travel agency, North Korea’s nuclear experiments, the shutdown of the Kaeseong Industrial Complex, and the rapid cooling of inter-Korean relations are stirring foreigners’ [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The daughter of the chairman of SKGroup, South Korea’s third largest business conglomerate, is serving with a naval unit defending South Korea’s sea border with North Korea, a military source said Tuesday. Chey Min-jung, the second daughter of Chey Tae-won, was commissioned as a naval officer in November 2014 and has since taken part in the Navy’s anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia last year. [...]