Tag: south hamgyong province
Pyongsong crackdown leaves shelves bare as North Korea pushes state commerce...
North Korea's crackdown on private markets is intensifying as the regime designates March a "month of commercial revolution," triggering sharp price spikes and supply...
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 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...
North Korean seafood floods Chinese markets despite UN export ban
Trade representatives from Rason are purchasing large quantities of shellfish and other seafood from coastal areas of South Hamgyong province for export to China,...
North Korean county struggles to find accordion player for propaganda troupe
A mobile propaganda troupe in Chongpyong county, South Hamgyong province, has been virtually inactive after its accordion player took sick leave in January, leading...
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...
Falling asleep during propaganda now a political offense in South Hamgyong...
So-called documentary study sessions praising the greatness of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are underway in South Hamgyong province, with authorities harshly criticizing...
North Korea orders youth to lead final push on five-year plan...
Socialist Patriotic Youth League organizations are conducting large-scale ideological campaigns at factories, but young workers react indifferently to calls for double shifts and overtime...
