Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk, Author at North Korea News — Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026

Home Authors Posts by Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk

14 POSTS 0 COMMENTS

North Korean dispatched workers at a construction site in Vladivostok, Russia

North Korea-Russia Relations

North Korea curbs cheap overseas labor dispatch

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - July 28, 2026

Title page of North Korea's criminal procedure law showing its amendment history

Analysis & Opinion

North Korea revises criminal procedure law, mandates defense counsel

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - July 9, 2026

North Korean dispatched workers at a construction site in Vladivostok, Russia

Analysis & Opinion

Pyongyang residents balk at overseas labor dispatch

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - July 6, 2026

workers

China-North Korea Relations

North Korea prepares to send more workers to China with stricter...

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - October 18, 2025

News

N. Korean overseas workers face systematic control from selection to workplace

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - September 12, 2025

North Koreans in Russia

N. Korea tightens control over workers in Russia

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - July 30, 2025

soldiers

North Korea-Russia Relations

Parents of N. Korean soldiers in Russia demand news

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - July 21, 2025

weapons production, russia, north korea, dprk, military

News

Families of N. Korean soldiers in Russia left to wonder if...

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - June 11, 2025

russia, repatriated, workers, laborers

News

N. Korea plans to send 28,000 more workers overseas, mostly to...

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - June 10, 2025

North Korean women in Dandong sojourn

North Koreans in China

No rest for the injured: How N. Korean workers in China...

Lee Sang Yong, Hwang Hyun-uk - May 5, 2025

12 Page 1 of 2

Recent Articles

North Korea cracks down on private hairdressers and barbers

August 13, 2026

North Koreans in China forced repatriation: flags near the Tumen River border, North Hamgyong province

North Korea shifts from raw material to processed goods exports

August 13, 2026

North Koreans walk along a tree-lined street shielding themselves from the heat with parasols in a screen grab from a Korean Central Television broadcast on July 10, 2025.

North Korea issues heat wave rules as deaths surpass 100

August 12, 2026

Two women standing in front of a coffee shop.

Coffee shops become NK’s heat wave refuge

August 12, 2026

North Koreans peruse cell phones on offer

North Korea quietly hikes phone prices at the border

August 12, 2026

A farmer in North Korea with a cow.

Sick and denied rest, detainees beaten in North Korean heat wave

August 11, 2026

Pyongyang residents receive bags of fish at a state-run store after leader Kim Jong Un ordered thousands of tons of fish distributed to the capital, Dec. 21, 2021.

Donju now run many of North Korea’s state grain shops

August 11, 2026

North Korea prioritizes power for munitions factories amid heat wave

August 10, 2026

North Korea tactical road and bridge construction in DMZ Kangwon province

North Korea fortifies its side of the DMZ, satellite images show

August 10, 2026

Aerial view of a newly built local industrial factory complex in Jaeryong county, South Hwanghae province, North Korea

North Korea’s new factories struggle as workers sent to mines

August 10, 2026