SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Friday stressed the need for swift and accurate weather forecasts, as heavy rain likely to fall during the summer monsoon season could seriously affect the country’s agriculture. The Rodong Sinmun, the North’s main newspaper, reported that having accurate weather forecasts is a matter of survival for [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry on Tuesday unveiled newly declassified documents shedding light on inter-Korean talks on sports and humanitarian cooperation from 1981-87, following North Korea’s deadly bombing attack in then Burma in 1983. The dossier includes minutes of inter-Korean talks in the 1980s, ranging from the issue of fielding a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea sent more than 180 trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea overnight, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Thursday, in what marked its third consecutive balloon launch this week. Some 70 balloons, largely carrying small pieces of paper, mostly landed in Seoul and the northern part of Gyeonggi Province [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held a mass anti-U.S. rally in Pyongyang to mark this week’s anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, state media reported Wednesday. More than 100,000 people attended the rally held at the May Day Stadium on Tuesday and the stadium was “full of the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has launched more than 250 trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea overnight, Seoul’s military said Wednesday, marking the sixth launch of such balloons since late last month. Some 100 balloons, mostly carrying scrap paper, landed in Seoul and the northern part of Gyeonggi Province that surrounds the capital, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has launched around 350 trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea overnight, Seoul’s military said Tuesday, in what marked the fifth launch of its kind since late last month. Some 100 balloons, mostly carrying scrap paper and waste, landed in Seoul and in the northern part of Gyeonggi Province, [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Monday condemned the U.S. sending of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Korean Peninsula, saying that the North is open to taking “overwhelming and fresh” deterrence measures against such a provocative act. North Korean Vice Defense Minister Kim Kang-il issued a statement slamming the arrival of [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea urged Russia on Friday to “immediately halt” military cooperation with North Korea and “act responsibly” after Moscow signed a new treaty with Pyongyang on providing each other military assistance in case of an armed attack on either of them. First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong-kyun delivered the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – As North Korea and Russia deepen ties across various areas, the two countries are now pursuing a joint project to safeguard the critically endangered Korean tiger, known as the Amur tiger, according to Russian officials. In comments reported by the state RIA Novosti news agency on June 17, Alexander Kozlov, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean military has postponed planned live-fire artillery exercises, a move seen as an effort to manage escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, according to officials. On June 17, the South Korean marine corps was expected to conduct drills using K9 self-propelled howitzers around the islands of Baengnyeong and [...]