SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will attend China’s large-scale military parade next week, marking his first trip to China in six years, and his first joint appearance with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, news reports said Thursday. China will hold a high-profile military parade Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has supplied around 6.5 million artillery shells of various calibers to Russia to support its war with Ukraine, along with 600 missile launchers and weapons systems, a Ukrainian intelligence agency has said. The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (FISU) disclosed the information Monday (local time) in response [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit North Korea later this week, the North’s state media reported Wednesday. Lavrov will visit North Korea from Friday to Sunday at the invitation of the North Korean foreign ministry, the Korean Central News Agency said, without providing further details. Once in North [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has established drone production with Russia’s help, and Russian instructors are also training drone pilots in Pyongyang and the eastern city of Wonsan, a Russian official’s Telegram showed Thursday. “As I said back in the autumn … the production of Shahed-Geran drones in North Korea has already [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — TV footage showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un mourning over the coffins of soldiers who were believed to be killed during the Russia-Ukraine war was partly aimed at demanding Moscow provide rewards for Pyongyang, Seoul’s unification ministry said Tuesday. North Korea’s state media aired Monday footage of Kim honoring [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co. said Wednesday it has terminated ship equipment contracts worth 4.85 trillion won (US$3.54 billion) with Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex and plans to seek damages over what it called the Russian shipyard’s unilateral breach of contract. The contracts, signed in 2020 and 2021, covered the supply of [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea will send 5,000 military construction workers and 1,000 sappers to Russia’s Kursk region, Russian media reports said Tuesday, while Moscow’s security chief visited Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The announcement came as Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu visited the North Korean capital on [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizire) — North Korea on Monday denounced a monitoring group on the enforcement of U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang for issuing a report on military cooperation between the North and Russia, calling the move a violation of a state’s sovereign rights. The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) on Thursday issued the first [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, in what could be a performance test aimed at exporting arms to Russia. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch, involving various types of multiple short-range ballistic missiles, [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 600 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Wednesday, adding that more than 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been also wounded. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) gave the assessment during a closed-door briefing for the [...]