Monthly Archives: May 2021
Cargo in freight train at Dandong Station transported into North Korea by boat
The cargo aboard a North Korean freight train at Dandong Station was recently transferred into North Korea by boat, Daily NK has learned.
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N. Korean authorities using new law to crackdown on spread of South Korean content
The North Korean government has been actively using its new "anti-reactionary thought law" to crackdown on all forms of anti-socialist behavior, including going as...
Two soldiers die after stepping on minefield near the Sino-North Korean border
Two soldiers building electric wire fences and concrete walls on the Sino-North Korean border near Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, recently died after inadvertently stepping...
N. Korean authorities order expatriates in China to avoid any direct or indirect contact...
North Korean authorities are implementing measures to ferret out and blacklist business projects with links to South Korea before fully restarting Sino-North Korean trade.
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North Korean family in Hyesan placed in isolation facility for illegally raising cat
Amid efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, North Korean authorities in Hyesan, Yanggang Province, recently placed a family into an isolation facility for...
North Korea’s security agency arrests family of three trying to defect on Kim Il...
North Korea’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) arrested a family of three trying to defect over the Sino-North Korean border on Kim Il Sung’s...
North Hamgyong Province party committee evaluates COVID-19 control measures over past year
Earlier this month, North Hamgyong Province's party committee held a meeting to evaluate the province's COVID-19 control measures over the past year and to...
Freight trains have not entered North Korea from China at all this year
Despite signs Sino-North Korean trade was set to resume in mid-May, Daily NK has learned that freight cars destined for North Korea at a...
Wonsan man executed for illegally selling CDs and USBs with S. Korean movies, dramas...
In late April, North Korean authorities publicly executed a man living in Wonsan (Gangwon Province) who illegally sold CDs and USBs filled with South...
