SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean diplomats have been engaged in the illegal trade of rhinoceros horns in Africa, a U.S.-based media report said Tuesday, citing a report from an international civic group based in Geneva. According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime has disclosed that North [...]
WASHINGTON, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is showing “high-level activity” at its nuclear test site, the 38 North website monitoring the communist nation said Monday. Commercial satellite imagery taken on July 7 of the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site shows what appears to be supplies and/or equipment stacked on the ground at the [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday warned it will take “physical action” against South Korea and the United States over the allies’ decision to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. North Korea’s military said it will strike the moment the two countries decide on where to place [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States have agreed to deploy a high-tech antiballistic-missile interception system in the Northeast Asian country to upgrade the allies’ defense against North Korea’s increasing nuclear and missile threats, the defense ministry said Friday. The decision came after five months of negotiations between Seoul and [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korean martial arts manual dating back to the 18th century has been listed as a UNESCO heritage, the country’s state media said Thursday. The U.N. organization listed the manual called “Mu Ye Do Bo Tong Ji” on its World Regional Register for Asia-Pacific at a meeting of [...]
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States imposed sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over human rights abuses on Wednesday in an unprecedented, highly symbolic measure underscoring Washington’s determination to ramp up pressure on Pyongyang. Ten other top officials as well as five state agencies, including the National Defense Commission, which has [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean military said Wednesday that it has found nearly 260 wooden-box North Korean landmines washed up along the inter-Korean border region between 2010 through 2015. The military said it counted 259 landmines that were presumably buried by the North but were swept away due to heavy rains [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea discharged water from a dam near the border with South Korea Wednesday, prompting the South to evacuate border-area residents for fears of flooding. “It seems that North Korea discharged water from Hwanggang Dam at around 6 a.m.,” a South Korean military official said. The North did not [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea claimed Tuesday that the country’s industrial production exceeded its target last month as it started the 200-day campaign to push its people into working harder. North Korea’s industrial production, including coal and electric power, increased 1.2 times in the first month that it launched its hard-work drive, [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is believed to have almost doubled the number of landmines it has planted in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that bisects the two Koreas this year from the previous year, South Korean military officials said Sunday. Since April, the North has placed more than 4,000 new landmines in [...]