SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has informed the U.S.-led U.N. Command (UNC) of its plans to build fortifications inside the border between the two Koreas, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday, marking the first notification of its kind in more than six months. The North notified the multinational command tasked with monitoring inter-Korean [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has removed “unification” from the name of a building on the North’s side of the truce village of Panmunjom, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday, as Pyongyang has stepped up its campaign to redefine relations with Seoul as hostile. In August last year, North Korea replaced the signboard [...]
WASHINGTON, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is projected to have 50 ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, by 2035, an intelligence agency of the U.S. Defense Department said in a report Tuesday. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released the report on the current and future threats to the [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Thursday touted its mutual defense treaty with Russia as a “guarantee” safeguarding peace and security in Eurasia, marking the sixth anniversary of leader Kim Jong-un’s first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Rodong Simun, a mainstream newspaper published by North Korea’s Workers’ Party, carried the [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has hosted the first large-scale gathering of instructors for a nationwide children’s union, emphasizing their role in fostering young people’s loyalty to leader Kim Jong-un, state media reported Monday. The large-scale lecture for instructors from across the country was held in Pyongyang from Wednesday to Saturday for [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea reported Friday that brisk preparations were under way for the start of the new academic year in April, including the nationwide distribution of school uniforms and other items. The Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s main newspaper for the general public, published the report as the country prepares to [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Countries worldwide scrambled to understand the sudden death of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, in 1994, with the United States and Russia questioning the isolated state’s future under his son and successor, Kim Jong-il, declassified diplomatic dossiers showed Friday. Kim Il-sung, the founder and first leader of North Korea, [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will work toward the prompt and safe repatriation of two North Koreans who were found adrift in waters south of the inter-Korean maritime border earlier this month, the unification ministry said Friday. “(The government) will have consultations with related bodies for the North Korean residents’ prompt and [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have additionally dispatched at least 3,000 soldiers to Russia in January and February in support of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, South Korea’s military said Thursday. The assessment came amid concerns that North Korea and Russia’s deepening military alignment could lead to Moscow transferring advanced arms [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea on Thursday disclosed what appears to be an airborne early warning and control aircraft for the first time and said leader Kim Jong-un supervised tests of “suicide attack drones” equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published photos of the airplane while [...]