Tag: border
Yanggang Province officials seek out bribes from people using electricity on...
Yanggang Province authorities are carrying out frequent inspections of people’s electricity usage in areas along the China-North Korea border so they can shake people...
Hoeryong security officials launch crackdown on Chinese phone users for year-end...
Officials with the Hoeryong branch of the Ministry of State Security have launched a sweeping crackdown on users of Chinese mobile phones to collect...
Ahead of expansion of trade with Russia, N. Korea orders major...
As North Korea seeks to expand economic cooperation with Russia, it has ordered a major overhaul of trading companies operating in the Rason Special...
Cancer-stricken N. Korean defector in China receives funds from fellow defectors
North Korean defectors living in China's Jilin Province recently collected RMB 10,000 (around USD 1,400) for a fellow defector suffering from cancer, Daily NK...
N. Korea begins issuing visas for Chinese business people to enter...
North Korea has begun issuing visas to Chinese nationals again, around three years and 10 months after the government closed the border due to...
China cracks down on sale of N. Korean seafood in markets
The Chinese government has recently stepped up surveillance and inspections of ships passing through North Korean waters and has even started to crackdown on...
N. Hamgyong Province urges security officials to prevent defections
North Hamgyong Province's branch of the Ministry of State Security recently called in local city and country security officials and urged them to crack...
N. Korea accelerates efforts to revitalize tourism industry
North Korea has recently been making plans to revitalize its tourism industry, one of the few legal avenues for the regime to earn foreign...
Trade vehicles pass through Hyesan customs house once or twice a...
In early to mid-November, Chinese vehicles carrying rice and cooking oil entered North Korea through Hyesan customs house once or twice a week, Daily...
N. Korea earns millions every year from selling fishing rights to...
The North Korean authorities are earning millions of dollars each year by selling fishing rights to Chinese fishing companies, Daily NK has learned. The...
