SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Sunday that North Korea’s offer for inter-Korean dialogue is merely a propaganda ploy that lacks sincerity, calling on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un proposed holding military talks between the two Koreas in a bid to ease tensions along [...]
TEHRAN, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suggested Monday that his country is opposed to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. “We want changes on the Korean Peninsula and we are, in principle, opposed to any nuclear development,” Rouhani said in a joint news conference with South Korean President Park Geun-hye after their [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea appears to have conducted a secret nuclear test in 2010 and the explosion could have gone unnoticed by the outside world, scientists have claimed, adding to a series of similar allegations. Researchers Michael Schoeppner of Princeton University and Ulrich Kuhn of the University of Hamburg made the [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Commercial satellite imagery shows no signs of preparations for a nuclear blast at North Korea’s underground test site, the website 38 North said Friday. “As a result, a fourth nuclear test seems unlikely in the near-term, for at least the next two to three months,” the website said. “However, [...]