Tag: north hwanghae province
N. Korean parents offer desperate bribes to save children from military...
North Korean parents are desperately trying to keep their children out of the army ahead of the country's spring draft, with mounting concerns over...
N. Korea renames DMZ permits, expands travel rights for capital residents
North Korea has renamed its "front line approval number" to "national border approval number" for permits required to enter regions along the inter-Korean frontier,...
N. Korean university’s year-end purge: From foreign songs to USB drives
North Korea's University of Technology of Songrim conducted a campus-wide review last month of violations against the country's anti-reactionary thought law, Daily NK has...
N. Korean elite women take ghost jobs to escape forced labor
Officials' wives in North Hwanghae province are increasingly taking jobs in road maintenance to avoid mandatory labor assignments. The trend comes as housewives face...
N. Korean youth shift to low-key end-of-year celebrations as cultural restrictions...
North Korean youth are holding more subdued end-of-year celebrations compared to previous years, according to a source in North Hwanghae province.
The parties, scheduled between...
N. Korea claims major advances in anti-drone defense after joint military...
North Korean military and intelligence agencies have declared their recent joint electronic warfare exercises a success, strengthening their radar detection and jamming capabilities along...
Man arrested for posing as nephew of N. Korean foreign minister...
A man in his 30s was recently arrested by the Ministry of State Security for scamming people out of money by pretending to be...
‘Not enough’: N. Korean farm workers push back against harvest allocations
Farm workers in North Korea are expressing frustration over receiving small allocations of the fall harvest despite their year-round labor, with tensions exemplified by...
N. Korea detains widow over comments on Juche calendar change
North Korean authorities have arrested a woman for questioning the suspension of the "Juche" calendar system that honored founder Kim Il Sung. The incident...
N. Korea touts modernized poultry farms as symbol of Kim’s leadership
North Korea's Kwangchon Chicken Farm, praised in state propaganda as a beacon of food security, is instead underscoring the disparity between governmental pledges and...
