Tag: kangwon province
Kangwon Province military unit tests officers’ ideological loyalty
The political department of an army unit based in Chorwon County, Kangwon Province, has been sending agents disguised as civilians to the homes of...
N. Korea hands out bonuses to some workers at the end...
Some factories and companies in North Korea paid workers "socialist competition assessment bonuses" late last year to encourage an increase in production, Daily NK...
N. Korea’s distribution of gifts for Kim Jong Il’s birthday saw...
North Korea distributed holiday gifts to cadres of party and government organizations on the Day of the Shining Star (Feb. 16, Kim Jong Il's...
Kangwon Province orders party members to “take care” of Korean-Japanese descendants
In the run-up to the Feb. 8 holiday commemorating the founding of the North Korean army, the Kangwon Province Party Committee ordered party officials...
Was Ipo Village really ground zero for N. Korea’s COVID outbreak?
In early June 2022, a man surnamed Choe, the chief of the military medical department of the Second Division of the First Corps -...
Kangwon Province’s plan to improve quality of consumer goods comes under...
At a year-end party meeting, North Korea's provinces were ordered to improve the quality of consumer goods and basic foodstuffs as their first task...
Former military officer who met N. Korea’s Supreme Leader remains hungry
A Kangwon Province resident who met the country’s supreme leader twice asked the Workers’ Party of Korea for help his hungry family, but three...
Kangwon Province doctor exiled with his family for demanding a bribe
A doctor was recently exiled to a mountainous area with his family for extorting bribes from the family of a patient hospitalized for inhaling...
Soldiers sent to Mt. Kumgang construction sites from last year
North Korean soldiers in Kangwon Province were sent to work on construction projects in the Mt. Kumgang Tourist Region from late last year, Daily...
N. Korean propaganda claims S. Korea is conducting “biological warfare”
Lectures held near the 38th Parallel for locals and military family members have claimed that South Korea is waging biological warfare against North Korea,...
