SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the prolonged international sanctions on North Korea, the health of the North’s infants and pregnant women is in a very vulnerable state, a South Korean government think tank said Tuesday. The Seoul-based Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs said in a report that North Korea’s maternal mortality [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The East Asia Institute (EAI), a Seoul-based think tank, on Thursday launched an English-language website on North Korea to provide “comprehensive and balanced” information. The Global North Korea (http://www.globalnk.org) compiles statements, data and reports released by the governments, public agencies and research institutes of South Korea, the United States, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chinese government has revealed plans to construct a high-speed railway that will connect Mount Paektu in North Korea with China’s Liaoning Province at a cost of approximately 1.7 trillion won. A Chinese government website, posted an announcement on the construction of the high-speed railway connecting Baihe County situated [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of mobile phones in use in North Korea is estimated at around 6 million, with each device selling for US$100 to $200, South Korean Minister of Unification Cho Myoung-gyon said Monday. Cho made the remark during a session of the National Assembly’s Special Committee on Budget and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South and North Korea raised yellow flags at 11 guard posts each along their heavily fortified border on Sunday in a first step toward dismantling the posts under a military agreement reached as part of September’s summit. The two sides hoisted the 4-meter by 3-meter flag at each of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s spy agency is analyzing a soil sample collected from around North Korea’s nuclear test site, which Pyongyang demolished in May, lawmakers said Friday. In a briefing to the parliamentary intelligence committee this week, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) also said it is monitoring North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s health [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 North Korean defectors believed inter-Korean unification was very much needed when they lived in the North, according to a poll released Tuesday. The poll, based on interviews with 87 defectors, by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, showed 90.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is an ideal location for the construction of smart cities, a South Korean expert has said, proposing concrete measures to boost inter-Korean economic cooperation. Min Kyung-tae, a North Korea expert at the Seoul-based Yeosijae, Future Consensus Institute, said that it is very efficient to build smart cities [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Asahi Shimbun, one of the leading newspapers in Japan, reported yesterday that North Korea had included a beverage similar to cola in a catalogue that the country publishes to introduce its export products to visitors to North Korea and foreign buyers. The catalogue published by the North Korean [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is pushing to set up an inter-Korean joint volcano observatory at Mount Paekdu on the North Korean-Chinese border, officials in Seoul said Friday. The Korea Meteorological Administration has drawn up a medium- and long-term plan to establish a facility to observe volcanic activities on the mountain, together [...]