{"id":45562,"date":"2020-07-08T15:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=45562"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:50:23","slug":"the-prices-chinese-made-mobile-phones-skyrocket-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/the-prices-chinese-made-mobile-phones-skyrocket-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices of Chinese-made mobile phones skyrocket in N. Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prices of Chinese mobile phones in North Korea have skyrocketed recently due to increased crackdowns on international calls along the Sino-North Korean border, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTwo months of crackdowns targeting people engaging in smuggling activities or making phone calls to China has led to sharp increases in the prices of Chinese phones,\u201d a North Hamgyong Province-based source told Daily NK on July 6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese days Chinese mobile phones are generally being sold for around RMB 3,500 [around USD 498] in the border region. That&#8217;s an increase of RMB 2,000 [around USD 284] compared to the usual price,\u201d the source explained, adding, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany Chinese mobile phone sellers are raising their prices because there&#8217;s few new phones making it over the border.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source also told Daily NK that &#8220;North Koreans can buy the newest domestically-produced phones, but there&#8217;s little opportunity to buy Chinese ones because many sellers are just out of stock. This is why most smugglers and moneylenders are using cheap and old Chinese phones [these days].&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source further reported that even people who own several Chinese mobile phones to avoid surveillance are not using them anymore because of the crackdowns. The heads of trade <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">companies are also reluctant to use their Chinese mobile phones these days due to the government&#8217;s intensified surveillance of international calls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some North Korean defectors who have settled in South Korea have said that they had used old, cheap Chinese-made cellphones while living in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Gabriela Bernal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EA%B5%AD%EA%B2%BD-%EA%B2%80%EC%97%B4-%EA%B0%95%ED%99%94%EC%97%90-%E4%B8%AD-%ED%9C%B4%EB%8C%80%EC%A0%84%ED%99%94-%EC%9C%A0%EC%9E%85%EB%8F%84-%EB%82%9C%ED%95%AD-%EA%B0%80%EA%B2%A9%EB%8F%84\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prices of Chinese mobile phones in North Korea have skyrocketed recently due to increased crackdowns on international calls along the Sino-North Korean border, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTwo months of crackdowns targeting people engaging in smuggling activities or making phone calls to China has led to sharp increases in the prices of Chinese phones,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":42799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[222,948,1016],"class_list":["post-45562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-border","tag-mobile-phones","tag-surveillance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prices of Chinese-made mobile phones skyrocket in N. 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