SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is set to open its first party congress in more than three decades on Friday, a venue expected to focus on bolstering the personality cult of the country’s leader Kim Jong-un who has been in power for nearly five years. The congress of the Workers’ Party of [...]
WASHINGTON, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent satellite imagery shows North Korea is forging ahead with development of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, the website 38 North said Tuesday. The imagery taken of the North’s Shinpo Shipyard on April 29, six days after the North’s latest SLBM test, shows that a submersible missile test stand barge [...]
TEHRAN, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suggested Monday that his country is opposed to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. “We want changes on the Korean Peninsula and we are, in principle, opposed to any nuclear development,” Rouhani said in a joint news conference with South Korean President Park Geun-hye after their [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s defense ministry said Monday that North Korea could carry out its fifth nuclear test around its party congress slated for late this week as it is seen to have completed all preparations. “There is a possibility that the North would conduct an additional nuclear test and fire [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of more than 20 North Korean defectors and ethnic Korean-Chinese people have been indicted here on charges of smuggling methamphetamine believed to be produced in the North into South Korea for sale or personal consumption, South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday, noting they have found circumstantial evidence [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has heightened surveillance along its border with China and beefed up monitoring of its people ahead of the ruling party’s congress next week, a source familiar with North Korea affairs said Friday. With the North’s rare party congress a week away, the country has moved to restrict [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is likely to deploy submarine-launched ballistic missiles within the next three to four years for actual combat use, having made “some progress” in related technology areas, the defense ministry said Sunday. A day earlier, North Korea fired an SLBM in the East Sea, which flew some 30 [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean TV stations have recently been airing war-related movies on a daily basis. The North Korean central news agency aired a program called ‘Chosun Art Films – from 5 o’clock to 5 o’clock’ on March 28. The 78-minute movie that was produced in 1980 tells the story of the [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The top nuclear envoys of South Korea and the United States agreed Tuesday to “actively” push for three-way consultations involving China over the implementation of new U.N. sanctions on North Korea and its denuclearization, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said. Kim Hong-kyun, South Korea’s special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea fired two missiles on Friday in the latest show of force against the ongoing joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States, but one appears to have blown up in flight, official sources said Friday. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said one ballistic missile was fired [...]