Fight breaks out at North Hamgyong farm over access to non-arable plots
Desperate to supplement their income, North Korean farm workers in North Hamgyong province are coming to blows over access to non-arable plots of land...
Border soldiers forced to replant trees doomed to die
North Korean soldiers guarding the border with China have been mobilized to plant trees ahead of Arbor Day on March 14, but many are...
North Korea’s machinery import surge: farms, factories and shipyards stocked up
North Korean trading companies have sharply expanded machinery imports from China since late last year, with equipment ranging from farm machinery and industrial tools...
Beijing-Pyongyang passenger train service set to resume after nearly six years
North Korea and China are set to resume direct passenger rail service between Beijing and Pyongyang on March 12, ending a suspension of nearly...
Pyongyang’s consulate fleet quietly ferrying banned goods across the North Korea-China border
North Korean consulate vehicles in China have been used to transport goods banned under U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea. The practice has...
North Korean spy agency turns on its own informant
A remittance broker in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, who had worked as a state security informant for years, was arrested by state security officers in...
North Korea halts state smuggling ahead of party congress
North Korean authorities suspended state smuggling across North Pyongan, North Hamgyong and Jagang provinces in early February, ahead of the Ninth Party Congress scheduled...
North Korean trading companies ghost Chinese clients, sell goods for triple profit
Contract manufacturing accounts for such a large share of North Korea's official trade with China that wigs and false eyelashes are its top exports....
North Korea intensifies border crackdown on Chinese mobile phone users
North Korean authorities have launched another so-called mopping-up operation—a sweeping crackdown—on users of Chinese mobile phones, focusing on regions along the Chinese border. North...
Suspended smuggling drives up prices of Chinese imports in North Korea’s Hyesan
After North Korea recently suspended under-the-table trade it had been organizing in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, prices of imported goods have been surging.
"The state-sponsored smuggling...
