Tag: south hamgyong province
N. Korea links nursery support to performance reviews, spurring competition
North Korea is promoting a nursery support program, with local organizations and officials eagerly participating because program success factors into their own performance reviews.
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N. Korean youth delay marriage as housing crisis deepens
Housing has become the primary obstacle preventing young people from getting married, not just in South Korea, but across the border in North Korea...
Market vendors in N. Korea resort to fee evasion as economic...
Struggling market vendors in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province, have begun deliberately avoiding their stalls during fee collection times as poor sales make it difficult...
North Korea faces grain price surge as exchange rates soar amid...
The price of grains such as rice and corn is on the rise at North Korean marketplaces as higher exchange rates drive up the...
Red Youth Guard training leaves student with severe infection, no medical...
Injuries during Red Youth Guard entry training in South Hamgyong province are going untreated, a source in North Korea told Daily NK recently.
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N. Korea cracks down on remittance network helping defectors’ families
State security agents arrested a North Korean remittance broker in Hyesan while trying to deliver funds to a defector's family in South Hamgyong province,...
Falsified weights spark daily confrontations in N. Korea’s markets
Tensions have grown between buyers and sellers in North Korea's markets as more merchants falsify the weight of their goods.
"In Hamhung's Sapo Market and...
Parents of N. Korean soldiers in Russia demand news
While North Korean media recently published images of Kim Jong Un holding back tears as he held coffins containing the remains of North Koreans...
Disabled N. Korean soldiers beat woman on train over luggage dispute
Two disabled North Korean soldiers brutally beat a woman in her 40s on a train after she refused to move her luggage for them....
N. Korean traders scramble to secure dog meat supply ahead of...
As the first day of the hottest period of summer (July 20) approaches, demand for dog meat is surging in North Korea. With fewer...
