SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea again sent balloons carrying trash toward South Korea on Monday, the military here said, resuming its balloon campaign after about a three-week hiatus. North Korea floated some 40 balloons in the early hours, with approximately half of them falling in the Seoul metropolitan area and surrounding Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry said Monday it is reviewing measures to reclaim loans granted to North Korea for building inter-Korean roads and train tracks after the North blew them up in October. The unification ministry unveiled the tentative measures as part of its policy plan for the second half of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen the performance test of suicide attack drones, and stressed the need for prompt full-scale mass production, the North’s state media reported Friday. Kim provided on-site guidance for the tests of various types of suicide attack drones, produced by an affiliated institute of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency has released an audio clip of what it claims to be intercepted radio communications between North Korean soldiers in Russia speaking in coded military terms. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) uploaded a post on Sunday (local time) of what it claimed to be intercepted [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed the Ukrainian military’s first combat engagement with North Korean troops, saying it opened a new chapter of instability in the world. Zelenskyy, in a video address posted on the Ukrainian president’s official website Tuesday (local time), said, “The first battles with North Korean [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected flood-hit areas and called for expediting rehabilitation to ensure its completion before a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in December, state media reported Tuesday. The visit on Monday to North Phyongan Province, reported by the Korean Central [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have changed the name of a think tank designed to analyze affairs with South Korea, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday, as its leader Kim Jong-un has bolstered animosity toward the South. North Korea disclosed the entity named the DPRK Institute of Enemy State Studies for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s foreign minister, currently visiting Russia for talks, said the strategic value of her country’s relations with Russia holds greater importance in the severe international political landscape, the country’s state media reported Saturday. Choe Son-hui made the remarks during her speech at a ceremony unveiling a plaque honoring [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea fired what appeared to be a new type of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the East Sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, in a move apparently aimed at bolstering Pyongyang’s leverage head of the U.S. presidential election next week. Thursday’s launch also came hours after [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state-sponsored cyberunit, comprising some 8,400 hackers, has mounted over 10,000 attacks against South Korea this year, South Korea’s cyber operation command said Wednesday. The Cyber Operations Command revealed these findings during a parliamentary audit session, according to Rep. Lee Seong-kweun of the ruling People Power Party and [...]