SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has completed building an ice cream factory in Pyongyang as instructed by leader Kim Jong-un, its state media reported Thursday, amid an economy faltering under global sanctions. A ceremony was held the previous day to celebrate the construction of a “modern” ice cream production base in the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s official newspaper claimed that the country has developed and partially commercialized a string of state-of-the-art technologies. The Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the North’s ruling Worker’s Party, on Tuesday published an article covering the National Informatization Achievement Exhibition 2022, noting that a variety of Internet of Things (IoT), big [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — It was found that a North Korean department store is openly selling counterfeits of global luxury brands. According to a recent report by DPRK Today, a Chinese-based North Korean propaganda outlet, a variety of counterfeit foreign luxury items were showcased at a consumer goods exhibition held at the Pyongyang [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea appears to be shifting its focus to the development of “tactical” nuclear arms mountable on new hard-to-detect launchers, including a reservoir silo, in a bid to counter evolving South Korea-U.S. deterrence capabilities, analysts said Tuesday. On Monday, the North announced flamboyantly through its state media that leader [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government will push for the lifting of a ban on public access to North Korean television and media channels, a top official on inter-Korean relations told lawmakers Friday. The government will seek to “gradually” open the door for North Korean broadcasts, media and publications in an [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Tensions on the Korean Peninsula appear to be on a perilous escalatory trajectory, with North Korea dialing up nuclear and missile threats, and South Korea and the United States determined to make “stronger-than-before” responses, analysts said Friday. In just under two weeks, Pyongyang has staged six rounds of missile [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Masks have apparently made their return in North Korea in October, with the country’s public health experts advising people to don facial protection to guard against the possible resurgence of COVID-19. The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), monitored in Seoul, on Sunday released photos of elderly people wearing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) unit carried out surgical strike drills involving its special commandos earlier this week at an American military base just south of Seoul, its public affairs office said Friday, following North Korea’s missile provocations. The USFK’s Special Operations Command Korea (SOCKOR) revealed on its Facebook [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 South Koreans are skeptical about the possibility of North Korea abandoning its nuclear program, a survey showed Thursday, amid a prolonged impasse in inter-Korean relations and denuclearization talks. According to the poll of 1,200 adults by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The new U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea’s human rights on Friday expressed concerns over South Korea’s forced repatriation of two North Korean fishermen in 2019. During a press conference in Seoul, Elizabeth Salmon also said the right to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets to the North could be limited if [...]