Story Archive
2020-07-14
Attempting to flee is a crime, but doing it on Kim Il Sung’s death anniversary is more serious.
2020-07-10
Shipment of cooking oil burns with massive black smoke columns at Sinuiju, but the cause is yet to be determined.
2020-07-10
The workers were sent to Russia to earn foreign currency for Pyongyang, and are thought be trying to reach South Korea.
2020-07-09
Residents say making scapegoats out of senior officials will not solve any problems with the country’s overwhelmed medical system.
2020-07-09
Authorities pledged severe punishment, but some brokers skated with relatively light “reeducation” sentences.
2020-07-07
After the start of the school year was postponed three times to June 1, schools are closing only one month later.
2020-07-02
Trader says shortages of key goods will be met by “unofficial trade” on terms that favor China.
2020-06-29
Workers must ride out quarantine eating only rice and kimchi.
2020-06-25
Seventy years after North Korean founder Kim Il Sung (1912-94) launched the June 25, 1950 surprise attack on South Korea that sparked the Korean War, Kim’s grandchildren, Kim Jong Un and his younger sister Kim Yo Jong, are in charge in Pyongyang – and embroiled in conflict with Seoul and Washington over nuclear weapons and economic sanctions.
2020-06-24
Two factories employing tens of thousands shut down after workers develop symptoms.
2020-06-23
Signe Poulsen says South Korea should meet with civil society and other stakeholders about launching leaflets to the North.
2020-06-23
Ships carrying rice and corn from Dandong to Nampo labeled as “construction materials.”
2020-06-22
Caught up in Pyongyang’s anger at activist exiles in South Korea, many are trapped by coronavirus rules.
2020-06-19
Families with relatives in South Korea are widely thought to be better off.
2020-06-17
Security officials extract pledges of secrecy from witnesses, but word of the balloons spreads anyway.
