SEOUL, Sept.16 (Korea Bizwire) – In a stark contrast that highlights the growing cultural divide between North and South Korea, the consumption of dog meat has emerged as a contentious issue on the Korean peninsula. While South Korea has recently moved to prohibit the practice, North Korea continues to promote it as a cherished culinary tradition. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for increasing the number of centrifuges for uranium enrichment in order to increase its nuclear weapons for self-defense, the state media said Friday. Kim made the call during a visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute and the “production base of weapon-grade nuclear [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has held celebrative events to mark the 76th anniversary of the regime’s founding, with senior officials visiting a mausoleum to pay tribute to the country’s late former leaders, state media reported Monday. Premier Kim Tok-hun and other key officials on Sunday visited the Kumsusan Palace of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s trash-filled balloons have caused combined damage exceeding 100 million won (US$74,600) in the wider capital area of South Korea over the past three months, according to data Sunday. Damage was reported due to trash bundles that landed in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province between May 28 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military said Friday that North Korea has sent more trash-carrying balloons toward the South since the previous night, marking the third straight day of balloon launches. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected North Korea launching some 260 trash balloons from Thursday night to early [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea again started floating balloons into South Korea on Thursday morning, South Korea’s military said, hours after it sent hundreds of balloons across the border the previous day. “As (North Korea) has again been floating balloons since 9 a.m., we advise the public to beware of falling objects [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea again launched balloons likely carrying trash toward South Korea on Wednesday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, marking a resumption of its trash-balloon campaign after a near monthlong halt. The JCS said an unspecified number of balloons could travel to northern Gyeonggi Province, just north of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has launched a nationwide vaccination campaign for children and pregnant women with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), years after they missed out on essential vaccines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The campaign aims to inoculate over 800,000 children and 120,000 pregnant women with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is estimated to have earned more than US$6 billion through hacking and other illicit activities over the past seven years despite facing heavy international sanctions, a state-run think tank report showed Tuesday. North Korea’s income through illegal activities from 2017 to 2023, such as smuggling out coal, [...]
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 [...]