SEOUL/PYEONGTAEK, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean military has retrieved a sunken part of an ill-fated North Korean space rocket from the Yellow Sea, officials said Friday, capping a weekslong salvage operation hamstrung by poor underwater visibility, fast currents and other obstacles. It raised the wreckage, presumed to be part of the rocket’s [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately 16,000 elderly South Koreans are presumed to have died over the past five years while awaiting reunions with family members in North Korea who were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, data showed Sunday. According to data from the unification ministry, around 3,400 to 3,700 people have died [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Around one in six North Korean children under the age of 5 suffer from stunted growth due to malnutrition, an international report showed Saturday. The stunting rate of the children in the age group in the impoverished state was estimated at 16.8 percent, or 285,000 children, in 2022, according [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven in 10 South Koreans support the Yoon Suk Yeol government’s efforts to shed light on North Korea’s dire human rights situation, a poll showed Thursday. In a survey on 1,000 adults conducted by the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council (PUAC) from March 24-26, 70.5 percent of the respondents said [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Former South Korean prisoners of war (POWs) have again won a damages suit filed against North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un for their forced labor during captivity there. The Seoul Central District Court on Monday ordered North Korea and Kim to pay 50 million won (US$37,900) each to [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About 56 percent of South Koreans support developing nuclear weapons to counter North Korea’s escalating nuclear threats, a survey showed Sunday. The survey of 1,008 adults, conducted by pollster Realmeter last week, found that 56.5 percent of respondents say they support building own nuclear weapons and the issue needs [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About 60 percent of South Koreans in their 20s and 30s said unification with North Korea is not necessary, a survey showed Sunday, amid a prolonged impasse in inter-Korean relations and denuclearization talks. The survey, commissioned by a civic media group called Barun Media Citizen Action, found that 61 [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s first test launch this week of a purportedly solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) appears intended to secure the ability for a surprise strike and complicate tightening South Korea-U.S. deterrence efforts, analysts said Friday. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency confirmed the country fired a Hwasong-18 ICBM [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to conduct radiation exposure tests on 89 North Korean defectors who hailed from areas near the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear testing site, Seoul’s unification ministry said Thursday. The radiation testing will be carried out starting in May for six months on North Korean defectors who had lived [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of South Koreans voiced the need for Seoul to independently build its own nuclear weapons, a survey showed Thursday, in the latest indication that the people are more open to atomic weapons amid growing military threats from North Korea. According to the poll of 1,000 [...]