SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korean archbishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik has been named the new prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy of the Holy See, his possible role in arranging Pope Francis’ visit to North Korea is drawing attention from the Catholic community at home and abroad. On June 11, the [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run nuclear research institute’s computer network was breached by a North Korean cyber attack last month, an opposition lawmaker claimed Friday. According to Rep. Ha Tae-keung of the main opposition People Power Party, 13 external Internet Protocol (IP) addresses were found to have breached the internal network [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry said Thursday it will spend 1.18 billion won (US$1.06 million) of inter-Korean cooperation funds to build more video conference centers for reunions of families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War. A civilian-government committee on inter-Korean exchanges approved the decision to construct additional video conference facilities in [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 4 Americans view denuclearization of North Korea as an “important” issue that should be resolved, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,000 American people by the Korea Economic Institute of America, a Washington-based think tank, 75 percent said it is “very important” or [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has dismissed local civic groups’ request to block the sales and distribution of memoirs of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung, judicial sources said Sunday. According to the sources, the Seoul Western District Court rejected Thursday an injunction sought by several conservative organizations, including the New Paradigm [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1 in 5 children under the age of 5 in North Korea suffer from stunted growth, and the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the trend for some years to come, an international report showed Wednesday. The child stunting rate in the impoverished state was [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is actively pursuing the modernization of education evaluation methods by introducing artificial intelligence (AI) for foreign language tests. Echo of Unification, a North Korean radio station that broadcasts propaganda towards South Korea, said on Tuesday that Pyongsong Normal University has created a foreign language exam using AI [...]
VATICAN, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Pope Francis has expressed his willingness again to visit North Korea as he sympathized with the Korean people long separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, a senior South Korean bishop said Monday. The pope made the remarks during a meeting in the Vatican with Lazarus You Heung-sik, who heads [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s biggest bookstore chain has ceased sales of memoirs of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung following a legal and political controversy surrounding the eight-volume series. On Wednesday, a local publishing company said it has begun selling the memoirs, titled “With the Century,” here for the first time since [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s recent decision to skip this year’s Tokyo Summer Games will rob South Korea of a chance to revive inter-Korean sports cooperation at a time when Seoul is trying to salvage fading hopes of co-hosting the 2032 Olympics with Pyongyang. North Korea announced Tuesday that it will not [...]