Story Archive
2020-02-12
North Korean refugees living in South Korea see Thae Yong Ho’s candidacy as a ray of hope.
2020-02-10
Cross-border trade is suspended, so traders forced to borrow living expenses, while workers have no jobs with no goods coming in.
2020-02-07
Terminal TB patients in the hospital can be highly contagious, but the repatriated North Koreans must ride out coronavirus there.
2020-02-05
Government throws caution to the wind as it needs foreign currency, sources say.
2020-02-04
The isolated people are forced to pay for their own food and lodging.
2020-01-30
Traders try to smuggle South Korean masks as government tightens border control.
2020-01-29
Sources say the group of 15 included government officials, possibly with secret information.
2020-01-29
News of confirmed infections spreads over WeChat in Chinese cities near the North Korean border.
2020-01-24
Traders spread rumors about the ‘new deadly Wuhan pneumonia,’ scaring many residents.
2020-01-23
Beijing looks the other way as North Korean workers stay past sanctions deadline.
2020-01-21
Sources say the policy provides funds for government use and tightens control over citizens.
2020-01-17
Every workplace employing North Koreans now has an assigned overseer.
2020-01-15
Hwagyo are foreign citizens and have traditionally been exempt, but that is now changing.
2020-01-13
Increasing numbers of poor people are offering their services as servants to the rich, overcrowding the domestic labor market.
2020-01-10
Sources suspect sanctions-banned construction materials are smuggled across the border.
2020-01-09
Sources say news outlets have decided not to hide facts that Pyongyangers already know about.
2020-01-07
North Korean government tells people to use self-reliance to get through sanctions.
2020-01-06
Vladivostok’s North Korean restaurant workers did not return home, reported for work on New Year’s Day.
2020-01-02
Perplexed sources in China say there is no food crisis across the Yalu.
2019-12-27
North Korea’s citizens are not allowed to freely visit the capital, but many sneak in anyway.
2019-12-23
South Korea puts the number of workers sent overseas by the North at 70,000-100,000.
2019-12-21
Repatriating migrants in Russia vow to return next year, while China allows more North Koreans to enter.
2019-12-20
Security Council resolution requires that all North Korean workers return home by Dec. 22.
2019-12-18
In new HRNK report Digital Trenches, Martyn Williams shows how North Korea is fighting the spread of information emboldened by advances in technology.
2019-12-17
Experts say they are trying to push back at U.S. policies towards them, and are also trying to “placate Pyongyang.”
2019-12-17
Chinese authorities are mounting a crackdown on North Korean fisheries products.
2019-12-13
Judge Rohatul Akmar Abdullah says Mun Chol Myong has 15 days to appeal the ruling.
2019-12-13
Computer science students edited foreign porn videos and sold them on flash drives
2019-12-11
Wealthy suspected of using stockpiles of ill-gotten funds to acquire bounty of foreign goods they likely intend to resell.
2019-12-10
Others warn that not holding Pyongyang accountable on human rights issues compromises U.S. values.
