SEOUL, Jan.20 (Korea Bizwire) – With South Korea resuming loudspeaker broadcasts against North Korea following the latter’s nuclear test, North Korea also responded with its own loudspeaker broadcasts. However, instead of pointing its speakers to the south, it is sending out broadcasts towards its own territory. According to SBS, a South Korean broadcasting network, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Defense Minister Han Min-koo and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken held talks Wednesday as the allies are quickening moves to punish North Korea for its defiant nuclear test earlier this month. “Despite repeated warnings and worries by the international community, North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leaflets criticizing the South were spotted for a second consecutive day in South Korea’s border towns Thursday as the rivals escalated their psychological warfare across the border in the wake of the communist nation’s recent nuclear test. “We detected the North Korean military spreading anti-South leaflets again [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - North Koreans have shown enthusiastic support for the nuclear scientists and officials who contributed to the North’s latest nuclear test, the North’s media said Thursday. Waving decorative flowers on streets in Pyongyang, about 100,000 North Koreans cheered a procession of vehicles carrying the scientists and officials, according to the North’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Tuesday it is not considering temporarily shutting down a joint industrial park in North Korea at this stage despite the North’s claimed successful test of a hydrogen bomb last week. The government has decided to limit the entry of South Korean nationals into Kaesong Industrial Complex [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea announced Wednesday it has succeeded in conducting a hydrogen bomb test, hours after an earthquake was detected close to the North’s nuclear test site in its northeastern region. In a “special” announcement aired on the North’s state television station, North Korea said it conducted an H-bomb test [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed efforts Friday to improve ties with South Korea, saying that he is open to talks with Seoul in an open-minded manner for unification. In his New Year’s message delivered live on the North’s television, Kim said North Korea is open to having candid [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has offered “profound” condolences over the death of his key aide who handled inter-Korean affairs, Pyongyang’s state media said Thursday. On Wednesday, Kim visited the mortuary of Kim Yang-gon, a secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, who died on Tuesday in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec.28 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-un the North Korean leader who is also known to be a chain smoker, was spotted smoking a cigarette and then throwing the butt away inside the subway. The North Korean Central News Agency reported footage of Kim Jong-un participating in the test drive of a subway developed with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South and North Korea have reached an agreement on the land use fee amount for South Korean firms operating a joint industrial park across the border, the Unification Ministry announced Thursday. The deal calls for South Korean firms at Kaesong Industrial Complex to pay US$0.64 per square meter every [...]