SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has not responded to South Korea’s move to hand over the body of a North Korean national found on a western island in June, Seoul’s unification ministry said Tuesday. The North has snubbed Seoul’s call to respond to the South’s plan to transfer the body of a [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will work toward the prompt and safe repatriation of two North Koreans who were found adrift in waters south of the inter-Korean maritime border earlier this month, the unification ministry said Friday. “(The government) will have consultations with related bodies for the North Korean residents’ prompt and [...]
Osan, South Korea, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Police are looking into a claim that a university in a city south of Seoul repatriated 22 Uzbek students against their will before the end of semester, officials said Tuesday. According to Hanshin University, 23 Uzbek nationals attending a language institute on its campus in the city of Osan, just south [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Many North Koreans appear to have been repatriated from China, the unification ministry said Friday after a recent news report that about 600 North Koreans have forcibly been sent back home. “It appears to be true that many North Korean residents in three northeastern Chinese provinces have been repatriated,” [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The remains of seven South Korean soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War returned home from the United States on Wednesday, after they were initially thought to be U.S. war dead and sent to America. A ceremony marking the remains’ return took place at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean military plane carrying a special delegation departed for Kazakhstan on Saturday to bring home the remains of a legendary Korean independence fighter, Hong Beom-do, 78 years after his death in the Central Asian country, officials said. The KC-330 multirole aerial tanker departed from Seoul Air Base [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Tuesday that it plans later this week to repatriate eight North Koreans who were rescued last week in the East Sea, as they expressed wishes to go home. The government plans to send them back home around Thursday as it will seek to notify North Korea [...]