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South Korea’s unification minister says he opposed a foreign ministry proposal to sanction North Korean cyber operatives in response to the Sept. 21 mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), arguing that the two issues are unrelated. “What does a cyber sanction have to do with responding to a land mine explosion?”…
South Korea plans to investigate North Korean incursions across the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) in order to formally declare them violations of the Korean War armistice, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday, following the Sept. 21 mine explosion that injured three ROK soldiers. The ministry outlined the plan in…
North Korea has renamed a government agency tasked with preserving the country’s culture to drop a reference to a shared Korean ethnic identity, in the latest example of Pyongyang’s abandonment of its reunification policy. The agency formerly known as the Bureau for the Protection of National Cultural Heritage…
North Korean and Russian scientists have found signs that endangered leopards and tigers are living in the DPRK and will join hands to search for the animals, a Russian nature reserve has announced. The revelation came during a three-day visit by a delegation from the DPRK Ministry of Land and Environment Protection…
An unknown prankster appears to have hacked the voicemail of the North Korean mission to the U.N., NK News has confirmed, recording a profane greeting that mocks the country and its persistent food shortages. CNN was first to report on the satirical message that plays after calling the phone number of the DPRK’s…
NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park and Michael Bosack, former deputy secretary of the U.N. Command Military Armistice Commission, join the podcast this week to discuss the Sept. 21 landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), what investigators have established about the North Korean mine involved and why…
North Korea on Tuesday condemned South Korea’s final investigation into a land mine explosion near the inter-Korean border that injured three soldiers and warned that its forces would respond to any South Korean demining activity that crosses into the North’s territory. In a statement issued through the state-run…
South Korea’s highest court has acquitted a North Korean defector who helped facilitate money transfers to family members in the North, marking the court’s first such ruling in a remittance case. The Supreme Court of Korea on Thursday dismissed the prosecution’s appeal and finalized the acquittal against the defector…