Tag: chongjin
Chongjin households work through the night on wigs and eyelashes to...
Wig and eyelash assembly work has taken off as a cottage industry in Chongjin, North Korea's third-largest city, as intensifying market controls and rising...
North Korea’s donju go dark as post-congress crackdown spreads fear
North Korean donju — the wealthy private traders who form the backbone of the country's informal market economy — are going dark. Amid a...
Overburdened North Korea teachers say profession has lost its appeal amid...
Teachers at a middle school in Chongjin have been ordered to produce teaching aids outside their subject areas ahead of a citywide instructional materials...
North Korea’s self-reliance push costs factory worker a finger
A technician at a coal mining machinery factory in Chongjin lost a finger recently while attempting to produce insulating paper using scrap lumber, an...
Flu outbreak overwhelms North Korean hospitals as children develop pneumonia
A flu outbreak is sweeping parts of North Korea, overwhelming hospitals and forcing parents to seek private doctors as children as young as one...
North Korean parents forced to feed laborers renovating schools
North Korean parents in Chongjin are being forced to cover meals, snacks and cigarettes for laborers mobilized to renovate school facilities. The costs fall...
N. Korea arrests official for quoting Kim Il Sung in Kim...
A provincial party official in North Hamgyong province was seized by State Information Bureau agents the moment he stepped down from the lectern at...
North Korean candy finds a market in China as defectors seek...
North Korean candy and snacks are quietly finding a market in northeastern China, where defectors, longing for home, are buying them despite prices that...
North Korean military fish farm run as private feeding trough for...
A military seafood production unit in North Hamgyong province is under investigation after a worker filed a formal complaint alleging that base commanders have...
North Korea’s beauty boom: Slim figures and wrinkle-free skin
Well-off North Korean women are taking a greater interest in their physical appearance. There are generational differences in this beauty trend, with young women...
