Tag: broker
North Korean agents pressure Chinese phone users as quarterly reviews loom
State security agents in North Korea's border region are ramping up efforts to catch Chinese mobile phone users ahead of their upcoming quarterly performance...
N. Korean security officials extort money from defectors’ families
Security officials in North Korea's northern border city of Hoeryong are pressuring families of defectors to confess receiving money from relatives abroad and surrender...
N. Korean officials turn to Bitcoin to shield assets from regime...
According to a Daily NK source in China recently, a growing number of North Korean trade officials in China have begun investing in Bitcoin...
Hoeryong remittance brokers offer services to defector families
Some remittance brokers in Hoeryong have recently approached the families of defectors offering to put them in touch with relatives in South Korea and...
Pyongyang family banished from city after startling revelation
A family in the Sosong District of Pyongyang was banished from the city in early March after it came out that a family member...
N. Korean security officials increasingly turn to extortion of money changers,...
North Korean security officials in the China-North Korea border region are increasingly turning to extortion of money changers and remittance brokers to make money,...
N. Korean broker exiled for handling defector remittances
A North Korean broker who handled remittances sent from defectors in South Korea and other countries was recently banished to an area far from...
N. Korean remittance broker arrested for cross-border activities
A female remittance broker in her 40s was recently arrested and is now in the North Korean court system awaiting sentencing, Daily NK has...
