SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un cast his ballot in local elections held over the weekend to pick new deputies for local assemblies of provinces, cities and counties across the nation, state media reported Monday, with voter turnout recorded at almost 100 percent. Kim visited a polling station set up [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has lauded the country’s successful launch of a military spy satellite as an eye-opening event of deploying a “space guard” monitoring enemies’ military activities, state media reported Friday. Kim made the remark during his visit to the National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) on Thursday, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Thursday it will immediately restore all military measures halted under a 2018 inter-Korean military accord after South Korea suspended part of the tension reduction deal following the North’s launch of a military spy satellite. The North’s defense ministry said it will “never be bound” by the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Defense chief Shin Won-sik said Thursday that South Korea’s partial suspension of a 2018 inter-Korean tension reduction deal is “a proportional response” and “a minimal defensive measure” against Pyongyang following its spy satellite launch. Shin’s comments came hours after North Korea’s defense ministry vowed to immediately restore all military [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign Minister Park Jin held talks with his British counterpart to discuss growing North Korean threats and ways to boost their bilateral relations, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. In the breakfast meeting held in London on Tuesday (local time), Park and Foreign Secretary David Cameron voiced concerns over North [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, the United States and Japan shared information about North Korea’s launch of what it claimed to be a military spy satellite, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Wednesday. “We immediately detected, tracked and monitored the launch, and shared related information among South Korea, the United [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s claimed success in placing its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit on its third attempt has raised the possibility it could have received technological assistance from Russia. North Korea said a new type of Chollima-1 space rocket successfully put the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit on Tuesday night, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine arrived in South Korea on Wednesday, one day after North Korea’s latest launch of a military spy satellite. The USS Santa Fe (SSN-763), a Los Angeles-class submarine, entered the Jeju Naval Base on the southern resort island in the morning, the South Korean Navy said, [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Groundbreaking technology leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) has been developed to analyze satellite images to estimate economic indicators in impoverished nations, including North Korea. This innovation is poised to play a crucial role in monitoring countries with limited access to basic statistical data. On Tuesday, KAIST announced the successful development of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean military warned North Korea on Monday to “immediately stop” preparations for another military spy satellite launch, vowing to take “necessary measures” if it presses ahead with the launch. Lt. Gen. Kang Ho-pil, chief director of operations at the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), made the warning, [...]