WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Prospects for the resumption of dialogue between the United States and North Korea appear to be growing dimmer as Washington’s diplomatic overtures have fallen on deaf ears, fanning skepticism about bilateral reengagement. Deepening skepticism in Washington was highlighted last week when Kurt Campbell — President Joe Biden’s top Indo-Pacific [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification minister said Monday the government will make efforts to assuage foreign investors’ concerns about heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, saying his country has been beefing up a readiness posture against North Korea’s potential provocations. Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho made the remark during his meeting with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held a meeting to hand out gifts to participants in the latest national conference of mothers, state media reported Wednesday, in an apparent move to secure their loyalty amid a declining birth rate. The central committee of the ruling Workers’ Party provided the participants with significant [...]
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 [...]