Tag: foreign currency
North Korea issues new tourism directives in Rason ahead of possible...
North Korea's Rason city party committee has issued new operational directives to the heads of state-run international travel agencies and foreign currency shops in...
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 expands minerals-for-investment deals with Chinese partners
North Korea is expanding a minerals-for-investment arrangement with Chinese partners, offering raw tungsten and molybdenum ore as payment for mining equipment and capital. Trading...
North Korea forces coastal fish farms to ditch Chinese partners, upending...
North Korean authorities have been forcing coastal aquaculture enterprises in South Hwanghae province to abandon their existing Chinese trading partners and replace them with...
North Korea’s China consulates hit with sweeping inspection, pre-dawn raids
North Korea's consulates in China were subjected to a sweeping inspection last month, with auditors conducting unannounced pre-dawn searches of staff residences on multiple...
North Korea demands identity checks on Chinese trading partners in bid...
North Korea has ordered trade officials to submit detailed personal information on their Chinese business partners as part of a sweeping post-congress crackdown on...
Three words humbled a North Korean checkpoint inspector and got him...
A single claim of membership in the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Fund was enough to cut short the career of a North Korean...
North Pyongan procurement officers ramp up activity in sign of North...
North Korea's foreign currency earning operations in North Pyongan province have stepped up activity in April, with raw materials procurement officers fanning out across...
North Korea’s black market dollar rate breaks all-time record as China...
North Korea's black market exchange rate for the U.S. dollar broke 70,000 North Korean won for the first time in recorded history in April...
North Korea discharges soldiers early to send them to Russia as...
North Korea has been discharging soldiers early from active military service and sending them to Russia as overseas laborers, Daily NK has learned. Families...
