Lockdown impacts kimchi-making activities in Chongjin
Residents of Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, are reportedly complaining of hardships with travel inside the city blocked and markets closed to stop the spread...
With no place to go, tobacco attacked by mold at Onsong...
Tobacco produced by the 4.25 Tobacco Farm in Onsong, North Hamgyong Province, is rotting because the farm is unable to export its products abroad...
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MSS official fired on by border patrol during smuggling operation
A Ministry of State Security agent was recently fired on by border patrol troops as he was trying to smuggle tobacco in Yongchon County,...
N. Hamgyong Province witnesses soaring prices and more homeless on the...
With the hardships of people in border regions growing ever more severe as prices skyrocket amid the government's harsh disease control measures, an unprecedented...
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Diplomacy over human rights: Where is the red line?
A former human rights lawyer as president, the former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights as foreign minister, and a long-time pro-democracy activist...
Update : 20-11-15
| Won | Pyongyang | Sinuiju | Hyesan |
| Exchange Rate | 6,930 | 7,010 | 6,990 |
| Rice Price | 4,300 | 4,200 | 4,500 |
