Tag: foreign videos
N. Korean checkpoint inspector arrested after years of smuggling
A North Korean security inspector was arrested in late August for allegedly smuggling illegal materials into Pyongyang using a vehicle designed to carry secret...
Snapshots from North Korea: August 26-30, 2024
North Korean prison inmates forced into grueling flood recovery work
Inmates at Seongan Correctional Facility in North Korea's Jagang province are being forced to work...
N. Korean tech researchers arrested for watching foreign media
Eight employees of Pyongyang’s Kwangbok Cutting-Edge Product Development and Exchange Company were arrested by the domestic counterespionage bureau of the Ministry of State Security...
N. Korea’s digital iron curtain falls on workers in Russia
North Korea's digital iron curtain has fallen on its workers in Russia, with several forcibly repatriated for watching videos about defectors and life abroad....
N. Hamgyong Province intensifies crackdowns on consumption, distribution of foreign content
Crackdowns and inspections targeting the consumption or distribution of foreign content, including South Korean movies and dramas, have suddenly intensified in North Hamgyong Province...
N. Korean police crack down on non-socialist behavior on trains
The North Korean police have been deploying special teams to crackdown on illegal behavior on trains traveling between Pyongyang and other cities. In particular,...
The story of one victim of North Korea’s informant system
In early February 2023, a young woman knelt in a cell at a police station in Haeju, South Hwanghae Province, her hands cuffed through...
Crackdowns on foreign video content reported in S. Pyongan Province
North Korean authorities in South Pyongan Province have recently conducted crackdowns against people suspected of viewing or disseminating video content made outside of the...
