SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea called on North Korea on Friday to immediately release two of its nationals detained in the communist country on espionage charges. North Korea announced that it has arrested the two South Korean men on charges of espionage for the South’s state spy agency. “It’s very regrettable that the [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A leading anti-North Korean activist vowed Tuesday to continue his campaign to send leaflets critical of the communist country across the border despite bitter military threats from the North. “Balloons (carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets) that convey news from the outside are a kind of media to North Koreans, which should [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited a cosmetics factory in Pyongyang on February 4 and rebuked factory personnel over the quality of the factory’s cosmetic products. Kim admonished employees over the poor quality of the North Korean products compared to foreign cosmetics, saying that “foreign eyeliners and mascaras stay intact even [...]
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean-Canadian pastor has lost contact after visiting North Korea, news reports said Monday, amid fears he could be detained in the communist nation. Rev. Lim Hyeon-soo, 60, entered the North via China on Jan. 31 and has since lost contact with friends and family, the Toronto Star reported. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged the North’s military to become elite units in full preparation for war with the United States after inspecting the new guard unit hall at a war museum, Pyongyang’s media said Saturday. Kim has toured the recently opened the guard unit hall at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Korean government is unfolding rather interesting measures to up its birth rate. Up until the 1980s, efforts were made to limit population growth by slowing down the birth rate. However, after a famine hit in the middle of the 1990s, causing millions of deaths, the government turned [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea appears to have conducted a secret nuclear test in 2010 and the explosion could have gone unnoticed by the outside world, scientists have claimed, adding to a series of similar allegations. Researchers Michael Schoeppner of Princeton University and Ulrich Kuhn of the University of Hamburg made the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The North Korean government is planning to host several cooking competitions, according to the Korean Central News agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state news agency. According to the KCNA’s report on February 9, the alleged aim of these curious competitions is to help improve North Koreans’ diets. A national competition will be [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has developed a new “ultra-precision anti-ship rocket” that will be deployed soon at its naval units following a recent successful test-firing, its state media said Saturday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “watched a test-firing of new type of an anti-ship rocket” to be equipped at naval units “before [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government is planning to operate a cross-country railroad on the Korean peninsula and develop links to the Trans-Siberian Railroad (TSR), according to a report to President Park Geun-hye from the Ministry of Unification, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Patriots’ [...]