Story Archive
2019-10-01
Sources suspect Chinese banks and the government cooperate with the agent to send money into North Korea.
2019-09-30
Authorities accept bribes to look the other way as potentially unsafe pig feed pours across Sino-Korean border.
2019-09-25
Sources report that the travel initiative is a plan intended to enhance Sino-Korean relations
2019-09-23
Rather than taking precautions, farmers in the North still struggle to meet meat quotas.
2019-09-20
Mun Chol Myong faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to launder money.
2019-09-18
Residents of Vladivostok report that North Korean migrants have no choice but to endure the abuse because of their lack of legal status.
2019-09-13
Regime wants to know if they watched a South Korean film about 1980 Gwangju Uprising.
2019-09-06
Eight Democratic Party senators write President Donald Trump expressing concern over North Korea’s weapons tests.
2019-09-05
Sources speculate that the massive withdrawal is occurring because Russia is trying to comply with sanctions.
2019-09-03
The new badge replaces older Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il double portrait badges, causing some to speculate a political shift could be underway.
2019-08-28
Waste may have leaked from a pipeline into a river that flows into the Yellow Sea.
2019-08-27
North Korean Myong Shin brand ciggies cost one-tenth of Chinese brands, with similar quality.
2019-08-26
The workers already contend with a lack of jobs, delayed payments, and extortion from their handlers.
2019-08-21
Authorities meanwhile deny the problem exists, locking up those who complain in a local mental hospital.
2019-08-21
Experts note that previous talks have yielded little and say neither side has changed its position.
2019-08-19
Observers say the North may be exporting foods made with donated grains to raise hard currency.
2019-08-16
Burdened by severe workloads, officials prize medicines made in the South, fearing the side effects of Chinese-made pills more commonly available.
2019-08-13
Many North Koreans complain the launches are expensive and cost money better spent on food.
2019-08-12
Other soldiers who had bribed their company commander were approved ahead of him, one source says.
2019-08-07
Arrested in various parts of China, they are being held in northeastern China's Liaoning province before their forced return.
2019-08-07
Citizens suspect that the propaganda focus on helping rural areas signals trying times ahead.
2019-08-06
Authorities fire six doctors but the public remains enraged at the country’s corrupt medical system.
2019-08-05
Tire company trades logs to China for rubber in a show of ‘self-reliance.’
2019-08-01
Under cover of night, soldier crosses Imjin river into South Korea in first such defection since 2010.
2019-07-31
Local sources say Chinese companies are teaming up to sell gas in large quantities across the border.
2019-07-29
As Hyesan’s smugglers struggle, markets have nothing to sell and real estate prices crash.
2019-07-26
At the Pyongyang House nightclub in Yanji’s Pyongyang Ryugyong hotel, young North Korean women work to supply the regime with foreign cash.
2019-07-24
Judge rejected Mun Chol Myong's request for bail despite arguments from attorneys that he was not a flight risk.
2019-07-23
U.S. State Department says report shows Huawei’s links to “malign foreign actors.”
2019-07-23
Russian employers exploit workers’ visa status, holding pay in case they don’t return from visa runs.
