When South Korean balloon-lifted leaflets slamming Kim Jong Un just recently landed next to a high school near to North Korea’s border with China, security representatives summoned instructors, trainees and soldiers to bury the fliers– then made them all promise to keep the occurrence as a state secret, according to sources in the area. Releasing […]

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UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet voiced alarm Wednesday that curbs on freedom of expression had elevated in 12 Asia-Pacific countries throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with dictatorships and democracies alike stifling public debate within the title of preventing faux information. “Arrests for expressing discontent or allegedly spreading false information through the press and social […]

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North Korean authorities previously this month performed a couple for trying to leave the nation during the COVID-19 national emergency quarantine, sources in the nation informed RFA. The couple, from Ryanggang province near China, were captured trying to escape with together with their teenaged nephew throughout the border, which has actually been closed down given […]

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Authorities in North Korea have actually started a crackdown on teenage culture, targeting teenagers who store underground pop music and illegal videos on their mobile phones, in an effort to avoid South Korean patterns from getting more traction, regional sources state. Those captured in the crackdown, which began in late April, will not be merely […]

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North Korea has actually inexplicably closed down access to the border city of Rason, threatening the income of homeowners who take a trip there to do business with close-by China and Russia, sources in the separated nation informed RFA. The city of 200,000 people is within the Rason Unique Economic Zone in North Hamgyong province, […]

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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un sent out a “verbal message” to Chinese President Xi Jinping, applauding China’s efficiency in stopping the spread of the coronavirus, according to state media, in what experts stated was a tactical relocation to support Pyongyang’s relations with Beijing. Kim “praised [Xi], extremely valuing that he is taking a chance […]

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A Washington think tank report that North Korea is “nearing completion” of a ballistic missile facility efficient in accommodating Pyongyang’s whole ballistic missile toolbox highlights the modernization and growth of the nation’s ICBM program in spite of global efforts to stop it, professionals stated Wednesday. The Center for Strategic & & International Research Studies (CSIS) […]

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UPGRADED at 9: 21 p.m. EDT on 2020-05-01 North Korean state media reported that leader Kim Jong Un checked out a factory north of Pyongyang Friday, in his first reported public appearance in 3 weeks, as reports about his disease that have actually swirled around social media have actually begun permeating into his reclusive nation. […]

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A Tibetan monk who contravened of Chinese authorities in 2017 for sharing messages from the banished Dalai Lama has actually died, after investing the last couple of years in bad health from the torture he experienced while in custody as a political detainee that year, RFA has actually found out. Gendun Sherab is thought to […]

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Authorities in North Korea have actually been informing residents in public lectures that there were validated coronavirus cases within the reclusive nation’s borders as early as late March, contradicting Pyongyang’s claims that it stays devoid of the epidemic that has actually infected all of its next-door neighbors, RFA has actually discovered. 2 sources within North […]

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