SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 6 out of 10 South Korean university students think that a resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue is necessary to achieve the reunification of the two Koreas, a survey showed Tuesday. In the survey conducted by Seoul’s foreign ministry, Chung-Ang University and the Hyundai Research Institute on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has stressed the role of mothers in strengthening the internal solidarity of the regime at the first national meeting of mothers in 11 years, state media reported Tuesday. Kim made the remark during his closing speech Monday at the Fifth National Congress of Mothers, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for measures to prevent a decrease in the country’s birth rate in the first national meeting of mothers in 11 years, state media reported Monday. Kim said he has thought about North Korean mothers whenever he faced difficulties in steering state and [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States has kept North Korea on its list of state sponsors of terrorism, an annual State Department report showed Thursday, noting the reclusive regime repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism. The department released the 2022 Country Reports on Terrorism, which serves as a guide for policy decisions [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called on the air force to enhance its combat posture to immediately respond to military threats by enemies, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday. Kim made the remark during a visit to the Air Force Command on Thursday on the occasion of the Day [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Wednesday sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixer for serving as a “key money-laundering tool” of a North Korea-linked hacking group, in the latest effort to prevent Pyongyang’s cyber activities meant to fund its weapons programs. The department added Sinbad.io, a virtual currency mixer used [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — In yet another closure of diplomatic missions, North Korea has been shutting down its embassies in Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of Congo, foreign news reports showed Wednesday. They are the latest in the list of overseas missions Pyongyang has shut down in the past months, including those in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Tuesday the country’s military spy satellite has taken photos of the White House, the Pentagon and nuclear aircraft carriers docked at a U.S. naval base. Leader Kim Jong-un viewed the photos as he received an operations report from the Pyongyang General Control Center of the National [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Tuesday there were votes against candidates for deputies to local assemblies in the latest local elections, marking the first time that the repressive regime has reported opposing votes in its elections. A total of 27,858 workers, peasants, intellectuals and officials were elected new deputies for local [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has sentenced a man to 14 months in prison for entering a poem praising the North Korean regime in a competition organized by a North Korean propaganda website. The Seoul Central District Court handed down the jail term to the 68-year-old on charges of violating the [...]