Monthly Archives: May 2023
Pyongyang officials, students sent to S. Hwanghae Province to help with farming
Officials from North Korea’s main government agencies and students from Pyongyang-based universities are being dispatched to agricultural areas in South Hwanghae Province to help...
The annual “barley hump” set to hit some parts of North Korea particularly hard
As North Korea nears the “barley hump” — the lean time in the spring before the barley harvest — residents of Hwapyong County, Chagang...
N. Korean official sentenced to life for human trafficking across border
A political guidance officer with a border guard unit based in Onsong County was recently given a life sentence for engaging in human trafficking,...
Rethinking Propaganda: North Korea’s Rational Motives
Analysis of North Korean propaganda in the West tends to fall into the same pitfalls as analysis of North Korea itself, which includes that...
Russian ambassador to Pyongyang provides insights into current trade with North Korea and the...
In a May 25 interview with Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti (RIA), Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, the Russian ambassador to Pyongyang, revealed that his...
Pence Cartoon: “Swipe Left”
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Technology companies are a source of foreign exchange earnings for North Korean undercover workers
On Mar. 21, 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a federal arrest warrant for Shim Hyon-Sop and offered a USD 5 million...
N. Korea makes efforts to improve lives of Kyongru-dong apartment residents
North Korea is taking special measures to boost the quality of life of residents living in riverside terraced apartments in Kyongru-dong, a neighborhood in...
Rumors circulate in border region that overland trade routes could open in mid-June
Rumors are once again circulating in the China-North Korea border region that the DPRK will reopen overland trade routes in mid-June. Many people on...
News of N. Korean family’s defection to the South spreads in China-N. Korean border...
News of an entire family defecting to South Korea on a wooden boat across the West Sea’s Northern Limit Line (NLL) is spreading rapidly...
