SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean balloon carrying propaganda leaflets landed in the presidential compound in Seoul on Thursday, the presidential office said, hours after North Korea launched balloons across the border as part of a resumed campaign against the South. The South Korean military said earlier that North Korea launched more [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Analysts suggest that photographs released by North Korea on October 17, purportedly showing the demolition of inter-Korean liaison facilities, may have been illicitly captured from video footage recorded by South Korea’s military. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state media outlet, reported on the destruction of road connections [...]
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, 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. [...]
GIMPO, South Korea, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A civic group comprised of North Korean defectors on Friday said it sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets via balloons across the inter-Korean border earlier this week, amid escalating military tensions in the Korean Peninsula. The Fighters for Free North Korea said it sent some 300,000 leaflets from Gimpo, just [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Psychological warfare is playing a big part in the ongoing conflict between the two Koreas. The North continuously propagates anti-American sentiment to push the US to withdraw its troops from the peninsula, and to create internal conflicts within South Korean society. The South’s military, on the other hand, has used [...]