SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A China-based tour agency has begun taking bookings for an international marathon in Pyongyang next month, marking the latest sign of North Korea reopening to foreign tourists. Koryo Tours, which specializes in North Korean tours, has recently begun taking bookings on its website for the amateur competition in the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has completed the building of a general hospital in Pyongyang after five years of construction and plans to open it in October to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), according to state media Friday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unveiled a construction plan to expand the capital, Pyongyang, eastward, vowing to refurbish dilapidated suburban areas, state media reported Monday. Kim announced the plan in his speech during a groundbreaking ceremony the previous day for the construction of 10,000 flats in Pyongyang’s Hwasong [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The unification ministry said Thursday that North Korea was dismantling a reunion facility for separated families inside its Mount Kumgang tourist area and urged Pyongyang to immediately stop. Koo Byoung-sam, spokesman at the South Korean ministry, also voiced “strong regrets” over North Korea’s move, vowing to consider legal steps [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has begun attracting participants for its annual Pyongyang International Marathon, scheduled for April, marking the resumption of the event after a six-year hiatus, if held as planned, a North Korean website showed Monday. Sports in the DPR Korea, a website operated by North Korea’s sports ministry, carried [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean military flew drones over Pyongyang in October at the order of then Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, who is currently under investigation for his involvement in the martial law declaration, a lawmaker said Monday. Citing a tip-off from within the military, Rep. Park Beom-kye of the main [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A joint exhibition aimed at promoting information technology exchanges between North Korea and Russia has opened in Pyongyang, the North’s state media said Wednesday, marking their first such event in 18 years. The exhibition, held at the People’s Palace of Culture, opened Tuesday, according to the Korean Central News [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea will never bargain over its “national prestige,” Pyongyang’s envoy to the U.N. said Monday, reaffirming the recalcitrant regime’s adherence to its nuclear weapons program in defiance of criticism against its growing security threats. Ambassador Kim Song made the remarks during a general debate at the U.N. General [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Some foreign professors at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology have returned to North Korea after a four-year hiatus over COVID-19, Seoul officials said Monday, in the latest sign of the North’s further border opening. Late last month, an unspecified number of foreign professors at North Korea’s sole international [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea’s external economic relations minister has expressed intent for his country’s cooperation with Iranian automaker Saipa during a recent rare trip to Tehran. Yun Jong-ho made the remark as he visited a booth run by Iran’s second-largest automaker at a trade show in Tehran during his 10-day stay [...]