SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s latest round of its balloon campaign involved around 500 balloons carrying scrap paper and plastic sheets, including those that fell on the presidential office compound in the capital, South Korea’s military said Thursday. In what marked the second of its kind this week alone, North Korea launched [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho on Tuesday underscored the importance of “cultural” approaches to fostering internal change in North Korea, saying the inflow of South Korean pop culture is causing “cracks” in a rigid ideology-based society of the reclusive country. Kim also pointed out North Korean authorities’ “sense of crisis” [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A trash-carrying balloon sent by North Korea landed on the presidential office compound Wednesday, but nothing dangerous was found, the Presidential Security Service (PSS) said. The PSS said it discovered fallen trash on the grounds of the presidential compound while monitoring the latest batch of balloons flown by the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held a crisis response meeting to discuss measures to minimize damage that natural disasters could cause to crops and other agricultural products, state media reported Tuesday. The meeting, which took place virtually Monday, also discussed progress in natural disaster prevention projects for the first half of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted anti-Pyongyang broadcasts through its border loudspeakers in full-scale for the second day Monday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, amid tensions over the North’s launches of trash-carrying balloons into the South. The military began the daily anti-Pyongyang broadcasts at 6 a.m. for a 16-hour run [...]
SEOUL, July 20(Korea Bizwire) – Former President Donald Trump showcased his personal rapport with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his acceptance speech for the GOP nomination for the November 5 presidential election. Speaking on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump suggested that Kim might prefer his return to office and [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s formal nomination as the Republican flag-bearer this week is raising anew crucial policy questions over how he would deal with advancing North Korean threats, the alliance with South Korea and other high-stakes issues should he return to office. Both hope and concern have been [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military conducted propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts toward North Korea in response to its latest launch of trash-carrying balloons into the South, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Friday. The broadcasts took place from Thursday evening to early Friday in areas near where the balloons were launched, the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have started discharging water from the upstream of a dam near the inter-Korean border in the early hours of Thursday without giving prior notice to South Korea, the environment ministry said. Satellite imagery taken at 3 a.m. showed the downstream of the North’s Hwanggang Dam [...]
WASHINGTON, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The world’s first baseball team of young North Korean defectors will arrive in the United States this week, a non-profit organization said Tuesday, in a program that would enable them to experience first-hand the land of freedom and opportunities. “The Challengers” will visit New York and Washington between Thursday [...]