SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Russia and China have recently adopted punitive measures affecting North Korea’s aviation industry in a bid to mount pressure on the regime following its series of military provocations, the foreign ministry here said Thursday. “Last May, the European Union banned North Korean airplanes or airplanes that depart from North [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents in Hawaii and Alaska, among U.S. citizens, are the most sensitive to North Korean developments, with the number of searches with the keyword “North Korea” the highest among the states, a U.S. broadcaster reported Wednesday. Hawaii and Alaska, among U.S. states, are U.S. territories located closest to North Korea, and thus their residents are the most responsive whenever North Korean issues hit newsstands, Voice of America (VOA) said. Last Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) also told [...]
WASHINGTON, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States should be prepared to launch preemptive strikes on North Korea, including a nuclear attack if necessary, before the communist nation uses its nuclear bombs that could “kill 90 percent of Americans,” a former CIA chief said Wednesday. James Woolsey, who served as CIA director from 1993-95, [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea will fully implement a new 12-year compulsory education system, a North Korean paper reported Wednesday, three days ahead of the start of a new semester in the communist country. “The 12-year obligatory school system will be enforced on a full scale this year,” the Rodong Sinmun, a [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean state-run think tank reported Wednesday North Korea is presumed to possess about 1,000 drones, raising concerns they could be used for airborne terror attacks. North Korea is focusing on developing drones in a bid to make up for the inferiority of the country’s air forces and [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – What the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, learned from his forefathers is not just their autocratic means to control the public – he also inherited their plump physique that has often been subject of mockery outside the country’s isolated regime. A 1960 article by a South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea released Sunday a synthesized video showing North Korean shooting athletes targeting American military forces, accusing the U.S. of threatening a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. The two-minute video, posted on North Korea’s propaganda website DPRK, starts with images of North Korean shooting athletes engaged in training. [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea on Friday continued its daily condemnations of alleged U.S. human rights abuses especially ahead of the adoption of a resolution on its human rights conditions at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. “The United States is disqualified to play the role of a human rights judge,” [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has been scrambling to reinforce its cyberwarfare capabilities and the number of its professional hackers is estimated to have reached about 7,700, a report issued in Seoul said Friday. The report by the Korea Institute for National Unification said that South Korea should come up with comprehensive [...]
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A former chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with North Korea said Thursday that attacking North Korea, regardless of whether it’s preemptive or preventive strikes, is sure to prompt retaliation that could lead to a second Korean War. Robert Gallucci, who negotiated a 1994 nuclear-freeze deal with Pyongyang that unraveled due [...]