SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted anti-Pyongyang broadcasts through its border loudspeakers in full-scale for the second day Monday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, amid tensions over the North’s launches of trash-carrying balloons into the South. The military began the daily anti-Pyongyang broadcasts at 6 a.m. for a 16-hour run [...]
SEOUL, July 20(Korea Bizwire) – Former President Donald Trump showcased his personal rapport with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his acceptance speech for the GOP nomination for the November 5 presidential election. Speaking on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump suggested that Kim might prefer his return to office and [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s formal nomination as the Republican flag-bearer this week is raising anew crucial policy questions over how he would deal with advancing North Korean threats, the alliance with South Korea and other high-stakes issues should he return to office. Both hope and concern have been [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military conducted propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts toward North Korea in response to its latest launch of trash-carrying balloons into the South, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Friday. The broadcasts took place from Thursday evening to early Friday in areas near where the balloons were launched, the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have started discharging water from the upstream of a dam near the inter-Korean border in the early hours of Thursday without giving prior notice to South Korea, the environment ministry said. Satellite imagery taken at 3 a.m. showed the downstream of the North’s Hwanggang Dam [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s first baseball team of young North Korean defectors will arrive in the United States this week, a non-profit organization said Tuesday, in a program that would enable them to experience first-hand the land of freedom and opportunities. “The Challengers” will visit New York and Washington between Thursday [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A renowned Korean American expert on North Korea has been charged with having acted as an agent for the South Korean government in return for expensive dinners and handbags, a U.S. newspaper reported Tuesday, citing federal prosecutors in New York. Sue Mi Terry, a senior fellow for Korea studies [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea condemned the joint nuclear deterrence guidelines signed by Seoul and Washington as a “reckless provocative act,” threatening that the allies will pay “an unimaginably harsh price” if they commit further provocations. The message was published by the official Korean Central News Agency in a press statement from [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government is set to host a forum on North Korea’s human rights Thursday to raise awareness of the situation and discuss ways to improve it with the international community. The “Seoul Forum on North Korean Human Rights 2024″ will open at Seoul City Hall at 2 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An institute affiliated with the unification ministry published new unification education guidebooks Monday that highlight the Yoon Suk Yeol government’s liberal democracy-based unification vision and North Korea’s increased threats against South Korea. The National Institute for Unification Education released two books used as the basic guidelines for unification education. [...]