SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A man has been awarded nearly 900 million won (US$665,926) in state compensation after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned on spy charges more than five decades ago and recently acquitted by a court, a government gazette showed Monday. The Seoul High Court made a decision on Oct. 4, ordering [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s first indigenous military spy satellite launched in December has passed a combat suitability evaluation, the state arms procurement agency said Wednesday, in a feat bolstering the country’s space reconnaissance capabilities against North Korean threats. Following its launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California last year, [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state radio station resumed broadcasting mysterious numbers Sunday after a nine-day hiatus that could be some kind of coded message to its agents operating in South Korea. The message began just after midnight (Seoul time), at 12:15 a.m., by the North’s propaganda station Radio Pyongyang. It lasted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Moon Jae-in, a potential presidential contender from the opposition bloc, said Thursday that he will shut down the domestic-affairs divisions of the country’s spy agency, vowing to make the body focus only on international issues. Moon said he will restructure the National Intelligence Agency (NIS), and make it South [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s state radio station on Friday resumed the broadcast of mysterious numbers after a two-week hiatus, which some experts say are coded messages to its agents in South Korea. A female announcer at Radio Pyongyang read numbers for more than four minutes starting at 12:45 a.m., calling out [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean security agents dispatched overseas to watch over their compatriot laborers are secretly using South Korean-made smartphones, a Seoul-based news outlet that specializes in the communist country reported Monday. Citing a source in China familiar with North Korean affairs, the Daily NK reported the North Korean security officials [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has been sending active duty soldiers to Middle East countries by disguising them as civilian laborers, as the reclusive country tries to earn foreign currency, a U.S.-based media outlet said Friday. Quoting sources in the Middle East, the Radio Free Asia (RFA) added that the North Korean [...]