WASHINGTON—North Korea’s ailing infrastructure is regarded as the most favorable area for Russian investment, according to the head of a business council tasked with promoting business between Moscow and Pyongyang. In an e-mail response to the VOA Korean service this week, Vitaly Survillo, the chairman of Russia’s Business Council for Cooperation with North Korea, wrote: […]
SEOUL—Relations between Washington and Pyongyang have grown more contentious in the wake of the alleged North Korea cyberattack on the Sony Pictures movie studio. The U.S. was quick to reject a North Korean proposal to reduce regional tensions and is instead focused on pressuring and isolating the regime. North Korea is already under U.N. sanctions […]
FBI Director James Comey says hackers who attacked Sony last month were sloppy, posting directly from a server used exclusively by North Korea. Comey Wednesday urged the intelligence community to declassify information that proves the hackers used servers directly linked to the government in Pyongyang. U.S. officials have previously blamed North Korea for the hack […]
Sony Pictures says it grossed more than $1 million at the box office in Thursday’s limited release of its comedy “The Interview.” Some 320 theaters in the United States — about 10 percent of the amount originally planned — showed the film, about a week after Sony had suspended its release because of threats of […]