Tag: kangwon province
Pyongyang tells Kangwon province: use science and talent to hit second-quarter...
North Korea's central party authorities have issued a directive to the Kangwon province party committee ordering officials to use science, technology, and talent development...
Kim rewards parade soldiers with special leave
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rewarded soldiers who marched in the military parade at the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea...
N. Korean university holds anti-South Korea lecture ahead of party congress
A North Korean university in Wonsan, Kangwon province, held a mandatory ideological lecture on Feb. 1 instructing faculty and students to view South Korea...
Wonsan’s young workers choose bicycle deliveries over state assignments despite forced...
The Socialist Patriotic Youth League has ordered immediate investigations and forced labor punishments for members skipping assigned work to pursue personal business in Wonsan's...
North Korea’s price freeze in Kangwon province disrupts local markets
North Korea's Kangwon province is enforcing a strict ban on market vendors setting prices for products made at local factories, causing disruptions to market...
Satellite imagery reveals unauthorized expansion of South Korean bus operations in...
North Korea has continued using South Korean buses from the Kaesong Industrial Complex in an unauthorized fashion even after the complex was closed, and...
Pyongyang treats Russia combat veterans as state secrets rather than war...
North Korea is working to keep soldiers wounded in combat in Russia out of the public eye, spreading them across remote military hospitals and...
News of North Korean soldier’s defection spreads quietly along China border
News of a North Korean soldier's recent defection to the South is quietly spreading among people living along the North Korea-China border. Due to...
North Korean students punished for filming birthday party, praising their own...
Two students at a Wonsan arts school were reprimanded by the Socialist Patriotic Youth League for filming a birthday party and comparing it favorably...
Kaesong’s S. Korean buses now serving N. Korea’s Wonsan tourism zone
Five South Korean buses that appear to have operated in the Kaesong Industrial Complex were recently spotted in satellite photos, parked at the Wonsan-Kalma...
