SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea may send a team of two skiers to the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games next month if it decides to participate in the multi-winter sport event in South Korea, an official of a U.S. civic group which supports North Korean athletes said Thursday. Shin Young-soon, head of the [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A U.N. point man on the human rights situation in North Korea welcomed the South Korean government’s decision to seek dialogue with Pyongyang on Friday, saying that it is a “reassuring step forward” lowering tensions between the two Koreas. Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana still emphasized that at the [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea said Tuesday that it will make an “important announcement” at 3 p.m. (Pyongyang time) after it launched a ballistic missile earlier in the day. North Korea will make a special announcement, the state-run radio station said, without elaborating. The North fired an unidentified ballistic missile in its [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 80 percent of South Koreans support a resumption of long-suspended inter-Korean dialogue, a survey by a presidential advisory panel showed Thursday, indicating strong backing for the policy line of new President Moon Jae-in. In the survey by the National Unification Advisory Council, 76.9 percent of respondents said South Korea should [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea said Friday that South Korean President Park Geun-hye should respond to its offer for dialogue, adding Pyongyang will seek other partners if Seoul continues to rejects its talks offer. According to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang’s Council for National Reconciliation (CNR) said there [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has imposed fines on seven members of a local civic group for their unauthorized contact with North Koreans in China last month, officials said Monday. Without the government’s approval, they held a meeting with their North Korean counterparts in Shenyang in late May to discuss how to [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Key ruling party members of North Korea and Cuba have held talks to discuss ways to further develop their friendly ties, Pyongyang’s state media said Wednesday. The talks were held in Cuba on Monday between the North Korean delegation led by Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the Workers’ Party [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said Tuesday that a small number of North Korean restaurant staff have recently escaped their workplace in China. The confirmation comes a day after local media reported two or three North Koreans are moving to a third country after fleeing a Pyongyang-run restaurant in [...]
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s ambassador to Geneva reportedly downplayed U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s willingness to hold talks with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, as a gesture for campaign purposes. “It is up to the decision of my supreme leader whether he decides to meet or not, but I think his [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense ministry said Monday it has responded to North Korea’s latest offer for military talks by saying that the North’s denuclearization steps should be a top priority. The government said it sent its reply to Pyongyang earlier in the day as North Korea on Saturday proposed holding [...]