15 en The Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday it will investigate allegations that the North Korea-linked hacking group “Kimsuky” targeted local telecom giants KT and LG Uplus. Vice Minister Ryu Je-myeong told lawmakers the ministry will review materials after U.S. cybersecurity outlet Prack reported ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:52:23 +0900 Inter-Korea Anchor: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's influential sister, Kim Yo-jong, pointed to President Lee Jae Myung by name to slam his administration's rapprochement policy, saying the two Koreas can never become diplomatic partners. South Korea, in response, expressed regret over what it called a "distortion" of ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:27:20 +0900 Inter-Korea The presidential office on Wednesday expressed regret after Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, denounced Seoul’s recent efforts to restore inter-Korean trust, saying Pyongyang “distorted” its genuine intentions. It stressed that the Lee Jae Myung administration’s ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:59:38 +0900 Inter-Korea The International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) has reportedly identified a new building, suspected to be a uranium enrichment facility, at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Complex. According to Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun daily on Wednesday, the IAEA revealed the information in its Monday report after analyzing ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:07:49 +0900 Inter-Korea Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has dismissed President Lee Jae Myung’s peace overtures as deceptive and insincere, insisting the two Koreas can never be diplomatic partners. The North’s state Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday that Kim Yo-jong convened a ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:58:13 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has criticized the ongoing South Korea-U.S. military exercises as evidence of an intent to provoke war. The North’s state Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday that Kim leveled the criticism during his inspection of the North’s first five-thousand-ton destroyer, the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:05:59 +0900 Inter-Korea Foreign Minister Cho Hyun has pledged to prepare a step-by-step denuclearization strategy to resolve North Korea’s nuclear issue and encourage the resumption of dialogue between the two Koreas, as well as between the North and the United States. At a session of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:16:53 +0900 Inter-Korea Yoido Full Gospel Church is weighing whether to resume construction of the Pyongyang Heart Hospital in North Korea, a project that has been suspended since 2010. The church said Monday that senior pastor Lee Young-hoon met with Unification Minister Chung Dong-young on August 11 and agreed to cooperate on ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:25:41 +0900 Inter-Korea The ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs says it will abandon the August 15 Unification Doctrine devised by the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and seek to restore trust between the two Koreas. At a press briefing Monday, unification ministry spokesperson Koo Byoung-sam said President Lee Jae Myung’s ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:42:06 +0900 Inter-Korea President Lee Jae Myung has instructed related ministries to prepare for the implementation of the existing inter-Korean agreements, starting with the feasible parts. The president issued the order on Monday in his opening remarks for a Cabinet meeting as the nation begins a four-day civil defense ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:13:33 +0900 Inter-Korea Cyberattacks targeting South Korea's military internet surpassed nine thousand cases in the first half of 2025, marking the highest number in five years. According to data submitted by the Cyber Operations Command to People Power Party lawmaker Yu Yong-weon on Sunday, a total of nine-thousand-262 ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:53:23 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un laid a wreath at Pyongyang's Liberation Tower to commemorate former Soviet forces on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule. The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) said on Saturday that Kim ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:37:29 +0900 Inter-Korea An annual KBS survey of South Koreans' sentiment on unification has shown that anxiousness over security has dropped 14 percentage points from last year to 64-point-five percent due to the recent ease in cross-border tensions.  Respondents who were negative toward North Korea also fell ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:05:18 +0900 Inter-Korea South Korea’s military says it stands by its assessment that North Korea dismantled some of its propaganda loudspeakers along the border, despite a denial from Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. In a regular press briefing Thursday, Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:44:02 +0900 Inter-Korea The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has downplayed South Korea’s efforts to ease inter-Korean tensions since President Lee Jae Myung took office, and has made clear the North’s hostile stance. In a statement carried by the North’s state Korean Central News Agency on Thursday, Kim ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:20:54 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has spoken over the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and expressed his “full support” for Russia. The North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) issued a report Wednesday about the previous day’s call, marking the first time the North Korean media have ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:20:14 +0900 Inter-Korea South Korea’s top brass urged the military’s firm readiness against any provocation by North Korea, using the pretext of “self-defense” during the South’s upcoming joint Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises with the United States.  According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS), Admiral Kim Myung-soo, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:51:53 +0900 Inter-Korea The unification ministry has signaled it may forgo publishing its annual North Korea human rights report for the first time since its introduction in 2018. A ministry official told reporters Tuesday that while various options are under review, the lack of new testimonies since last year’s report is a ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:54:35 +0900 Inter-Korea President Lee Jae Myung has welcomed the dismantling of some of North Korea’s propaganda loudspeakers along the border after South Korea removed its own, expressing hope that such reciprocal steps will gradually lead to dialogue between the two Koreas. At a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Lee said the devices ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:21:13 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has reportedly conducted a firing practice contest for tactical artillery units to bolster its combat readiness posture. The North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) said Tuesday that tactical artillery subunits of the Korean People’s Army held a firing practice contest the previous ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:42:32 +0900 Inter-Korea The ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs says North Korea was restrained in its criticism of Seoul and Washington’s upcoming joint military exercise, adding that it was more an expression of Pyongyang’s position than a military threat. At a press briefing Monday, unification ministry spokesperson ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:17:09 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea’s defense chief has slammed plans by South Korea and the United States to hold a joint military exercise later this month, and warned that Pyongyang will exercise its right to self-defense in the event of any provocation. According to the Rodong Sinmun on Monday, North Korean Defense Minister ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:25:36 +0900 Inter-Korea Unification Minister Chung Dong-young has pledged his best efforts to reopen dialogue with North Korea and make progress on the abductee and prisoner of war issues after the wife of an abductee pleaded tearfully on her knees for help on Friday. During a meeting with a civic group representing abductees’ ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:47:11 +0900 Inter-Korea The Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) says it took a North Korean man into custody last Thursday and handed him over to the relevant authorities. According to the JCS on Thursday, the man was discovered within neutral waters in the Han River, after which he was tracked, monitored and taken into custody. The man ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 07 Aug 2025 10:12:44 +0900 Inter-Korea The South Korean military has completed the removal of the loudspeakers installed along the inter-Korean border for propaganda broadcasts.   The ministry said Wednesday that about 20 fixed loudspeakers were all removed on Tuesday afternoon and the removed equipment will be stored within the relevant ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:04:36 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has remained silent amid South Korea’s requests to repatriate the remains of a North Korean man who was found dead, drifting in southern waters, Seoul’s unification ministry revealed Tuesday. The ministry said there had been no response from North Korea by the 3 p.m. deadline that it had set ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:44:49 +0900 Inter-Korea The South Korean military has started removing the loudspeakers installed along the inter-Korean border for propaganda broadcasts.   The defense ministry said Monday that this is a practical way to ease inter-Korean tensions without compromising the military’s readiness posture. About 20 fixed ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:18:17 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has accused the United States and Japan of turning their alliance into a nuclear coalition that threatens regional security, saying the move justifies the North’s military buildup.  The North advanced the position on Friday in an article carried by the country’s state Korean Central News ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:33:15 +0900 Inter-Korea A North Korean man who crossed the inter-Korean border earlier this month has expressed his desire to defect to South Korea, the unification ministry said Thursday. A ministry official, speaking to reporters at the government complex in Seoul, revealed that the North Korean civilian, who crossed the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:01:39 +0900 Inter-Korea Anchor: Kim Yo-jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister and a high-ranking official in the country’s ruling party, has called on the United States to accept the North as a nuclear weapons state. In a statement released Tuesday, she clarified that dialogue alone will not lead to her country’s ...

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