SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has named two national players who won silver medals in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games mixed doubles event as among the top 10 athletes of the year, state media reported Wednesday. Ri Jong-sik and Kim Kum-yong, who brought home North Korea’s first medal in the Paris Olympics, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Tuesday denounced the recent arrival of a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea, accusing Washington of ignoring Pyongyang’s security concerns and warning that it is ready to use any means to defend its national security. North Korea’s defense ministry made the remarks a day after the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended the groundbreaking ceremony for a new greenhouse farm and a vegetable science research center in the northwestern city of Sinuiju, reaffirming his commitment to regional development, state media reported Tuesday. The ceremony was held the previous day for the “largest-ever modern” 450-hectare [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state media reported Monday that the Asian Winter Games have opened in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, where three North Korean athletes are participating. The Rodong Sinmun, the North’s main newspaper, reported the ninth Asian Games kicked off in Harbin on Friday, adding that Chinese President [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a regional hospital, highlighting the wide gap between urban and rural areas and pledging to make the modernization of regional health service a “top priority,” state media reported Friday. Kim attended the ceremony Thursday, which marked the start [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - A joint motorway bridge project linking North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River is under way, with completion targeted by the end of 2026, according to a Russian report. The Russian government has tasked TonnelYuzhStroi, a construction company, with designing and building a motorway bridge over the river [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) - A Chinese tour agency specializing in North Korean tours has opened bookings for travel programs to North Korea’s northeastern city of Rason, scheduled for February through April, its website showed Monday. The “Rason Kim Jong-il Birthday Tour” is scheduled to depart on Feb. 12, as well as in March and [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. President Donald Trump will pursue the “complete denuclearization of North Korea,” a White House official said Tuesday, amid questions over whether Trump’s recent reference to the North as a “nuclear power” signaled any policy shift. National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes made the remarks shortly after the North’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A Russian travel agency has begun attracting tourists to North Korea’s new Kalma tourist zone along the east coast, potentially bringing Russians as the first foreign tourists to the location, the firm’s social media showed Friday. Vostok Intur, a Vladivostok-based tour agency organizing trips to North Korea, announced three [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea is presumed to be accelerating preparations for the additional deployment of its troops to Russia while continuing to push for potential launches of a spy satellite or an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), South Korea’s military said Friday. The assessment comes as South Korea and the United States [...]