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 [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry made public details of its report on North Korea’s human rights violations for the first time Thursday, highlighting widespread rights abuses by the North, such as public executions and torture. The 450-page report to be officially published Friday was written based on around 1,600 human [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has emphasized an appropriate dress code for its citizens to protect the ideology and culture of socialism as well as to prevent the loosening of social atmosphere. The Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the North’s ruling Worker’s Party, recently stressed that it was important for the citizens [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Friday to make North Korea pay for its reckless provocations as the regime claimed to have carried out additional simulations of nuclear attacks on its enemies. Yoon issued the warning hours after North Korea said it conducted the simulations this week involving cruise missile [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has co-sponsored a U.N. human rights council draft resolution on North Korea’s gross rights violations for the first time in five years, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Seoul has participated as a co-sponsor in the draft resolution to be adopted at the 52nd regular session of the [...]
NEW YORK, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should be held accountable for North Korea’s gross human rights violations as the leader of the country, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has said after an informal session on the matter in the Security Council. “Kim Jong-un is the leader of [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea was once again labeled one of the worst countries in terms of freedom, a recent report by a U.S.-funded freedom watchdog showed Friday. In an annual Freedom House report titled “Freedom in the World 2023,” the North received a combined freedom score of 3 out of 100 [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military will bring in a more effective operational concept with the aim of neutralizing threats from North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile systems even from a prelaunch stage, the defense ministry said Friday. The ministry unveiled the scheme to introduce the “Kill Web” concept as part of [...]