SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said Tuesday that a small number of North Korean restaurant staff have recently escaped their workplace in China. The confirmation comes a day after local media reported two or three North Koreans are moving to a third country after fleeing a Pyongyang-run restaurant in [...]
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s ambassador to Geneva reportedly downplayed U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s willingness to hold talks with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, as a gesture for campaign purposes. “It is up to the decision of my supreme leader whether he decides to meet or not, but I think his [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense ministry said Monday it has responded to North Korea’s latest offer for military talks by saying that the North’s denuclearization steps should be a top priority. The government said it sent its reply to Pyongyang earlier in the day as North Korea on Saturday proposed holding [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has actively launched a nonsmoking campaign and even set up research stations across the country to get people to stop smoking, according to North Korean media reports. In a report picked up in Seoul, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said non-smoking research stations have [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea, the United States and Japan will carry out their first joint anti-missile exercise in Hawaii in June to deal more effectively with North Korea’s ever-growing nuclear and missile threats, the defense ministry here said Monday. The trilateral missile defense exercise will take place on the sidelines of [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Psychological warfare is playing a big part in the ongoing conflict between the two Koreas. The North continuously propagates anti-American sentiment to push the US to withdraw its troops from the peninsula, and to create internal conflicts within South Korean society. The South’s military, on the other hand, has used [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military is pushing to field some 100 additional units of the locally built K2 Black Panther tanks to strengthen frontline defense against North Korea, a military official said Thursday. “The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) submitted the request citing the need for 100 or so more K2 tanks [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea have reportedly appointed former Bundesliga top scorer Jorn Andersen to lead their national football team, Norwegian media reported on Wednesday (local time). According to Norway’s state broadcaster NRK, Andersen signed a one-year contract with North Korea. His family told NRK that the 53-year-old coach had been in the [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The North Korean military commander responsible for the country’s recent botched missile launches was removed from the ruling party’s central military commission, the results of the party congress showed Tuesday. The name of Gen. Kim Rak-gyom, the chief commander of the North Korean military’s strategic forces in charge of missile [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea held a mass celebration in the center of Pyongyang on Tuesday to mark the end of its ruling party congress that conferred on its leader Kim Jong-un a new title. The four-day congress that concluded on Monday gave Kim the chairmanship of the ruling Workers’ Party of [...]