Tag: hamhung
North Korea’s military-civilian solidarity rallies draw public frustration
North Korea held a military-civilian solidarity rally in the city of Hamhung on March 6, but some people in South Hamgyong province say the...
North Korea’s wealthy youth buy cars they can’t drive, hire drivers...
Young North Koreans with wealthy parents are buying vehicles they cannot drive and hiring drivers to run them as taxis or freight haulers, turning...
North Korea’s inns become havens for drug deals as crackdowns intensify
Inns across North Korea are being converted into hubs for drug dealing and use as intensifying state crackdowns push narcotics activity further underground, a...
Post-congress crackdown: North Korea conducts wired broadcast inspections to enforce ideological...
North Korean authorities are conducting household inspections of wired broadcast equipment across multiple provinces following the conclusion of the ninth Workers' Party of Korea...
North Korea intensifies jangmadang crackdown, seizing household goods for state stores
North Korean authorities have sharply escalated inspections of jangmadang markets in Hamhung city, seizing domestically produced household goods from vendors and routing them into...
North Korean parents pursue fake divorces to keep sons out of...
As enlistment season approaches for North Korean high school graduates in early 2025, parents in South Hamgyong province are pursuing sham divorces to exempt...
North Korea hands out Russian flour for Kim Jong Il’s birthday
North Korean authorities distributed wheat flour imported from Russia to government agencies, army units, mines and other state institutions in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province...
North Korean police resist pressure to adopt orphans under pro-natalist law
North Korean authorities in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province, pressured local police officers late last month to adopt orphans under a pro-natalist law that grants...
Drug traffickers caught at N. Korean checkpoint with hundreds of grams...
Two North Korean drug traffickers were arrested at a checkpoint in North Hamgyong province in recent days after attempting to smuggle methamphetamine from Hamhung...
North Korean youth “see party congress slogans in dreams” as weekly...
North Korea has dramatically increased the frequency of ideological indoctrination lectures for young people ahead of the Ninth Party Congress. However, young people are...
