SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The veterans ministry said Tuesday it will hold a lighting ceremony in Seoul this week to honor South Korean service members killed during military clashes with North Korea while defending the western maritime border. The three-day ceremony will begin Wednesday evening at Cheonggye Plaza in central Seoul, illuminating 55 [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has successfully test-fired its latest surface-to-air missile system, which was recently put into full-scale production, as leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the test, state media reported Friday. The test-firing was conducted by the country’s Missile Administration on Thursday to “examine the comprehensive performance” of the missile system being [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected a military dockyard in the western port city of Nampho and ordered a rapid increase in shipbuilding capacity to bolster its naval forces, state media reported Friday. Kim gave “field guidance” at the Nampho Dockyard on Thursday and inspected its various production [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Two North Koreans aboard a wooden boat drifting in the Yellow Sea were discovered earlier this month and are now under questioning, military officials said Friday. The military took the two men into custody after a P-3 maritime patrol aircraft discovered the boat in waters 170 kilometers west of [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean delegations for economy and public health affairs have left for Russia, state news media reported Tuesday, signaling active bilateral cooperation between the two countries. The government’s economic delegation, led by Yun Jong-ho, external economic relations minister, left Pyongyang on Monday to visit Russia, the Korean Central News [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean cargo ship suspected of smuggling out North Korean coal collided with a Chinese ship and sank in the Yellow Sea last month, according to a source familiar with the matter Thursday. The accident is believed to have left around 15-20 North Korean crew members dead. But [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Monday urged Japan to investigate and apologize to Korean victims killed in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo in 1945, near the end of World War II, a day before Japan is set to mourn the victims of the devastating air raid. The demand was issued by [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine has said he used jamming guns to neutralize Ukrainian drones, a South Korean lawmaker who recently met the soldier said Friday, in a rare glimpse into the North’s battlefield tactic to aid Moscow’s war against Kyiv. Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the ruling [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) -- North Korea on Friday promoted women’s loyalty and devotion to the ruling party and the regime ahead of the upcoming International Women’s Day. The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published several articles hailing the contributions by mothers, female workers and other women in celebration of Women’s Day on [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine said that the North has military training camps that feature mockups of facilities and buildings in Seoul, Busan and Jeju Island, according to a South Korean lawmaker who recently met the soldier on Thursday. Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the ruling People Power [...]