SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – During Thursday’s policy discussion for Seoul-Pyongyang cooperation, Seoul mayor Park Won-soon announced the city’s ambitious plans to establish friendly ties with North Korea, which included establishing a joint animation center in Pyongyang and inviting North Korea to the 2019 National Sports Festival. The city’s “Grand Design” comes from mayor [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday reaffirmed Washington’s security commitment to South Korea during his telephone conversation with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, an official source said. During the talks that lasted some 10 minutes, Trump was quoted as saying that the United States will maintain a “firm, strong” [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could try to complete the postponed transfer of the wartime operational control of South Korean forces from Washington to Seoul in an effort to reduce American security burdens, a top expert on Korea said Wednesday. South Korea handed over control of its forces to the [...]
GEOJE, South Korea, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea launched its eighth 1,800-ton “KSS-II” submarine on Tuesday dubbed the Lee Beom-seok, named after a renowned independence movement fighter during the Japanese colonial rule, who served as a prime minister and defense minister after the Japanese occupation ended. The ship is scheduled for deployment in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – United States Forces Korea announced Monday that it recently practiced Courageous Channel, a military exercise gear towards evacuating American civilians from the peninsula in case of military emergency. According to the Eighth United States Army, the Daegu-stationed 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command rehearsed the operation from October 31 to November [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is considering blacklisting a Chinese firm suspected of being involved in illicit deals with North Korea as part of efforts to prevent money from flowing into the communist state that is defiantly pursuing a nuclear weapons program, government sources said Tuesday. The Seoul government is currently reviewing [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of mobile phones being used in North Korea came to 3.24 million as of July last year, a U.S. broadcaster reported Wednesday, citing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s recently updated version of the World Factbook. The Voice of America (VOA) said the North’s mobile phone subscriptions per [...]
PAJU, South Korea, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Paju north of Seoul plans to relocate the observatory at Dorasan Station, South Korea’s northernmost station, to another site offering a better view of North Korea by the end of next year, the municipality said Tuesday. The Paju municipality has pushed ahead with the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The countries to which North Korea’s national carrier, Air Koryo, is now able to operate flights has been limited to only China and Russia at a time many countries have endorsed the U.N. sanctions on the North, a U.S. broadcaster reported Tuesday. According to the Voice of America (VOA), [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea fired a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday (Korean time), but the launch ended in failure, the U.S. Strategic Command said. “U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) systems detected what we assess was a failed North Korean missile launch” at 7 a.m. (Korean time) near the northwestern city of [...]