North Korea might be looking for help from abroad in addition to propaganda points at home with a weekend announcement of its first presumed COVID-19 case, a report that blamed the infection on a banished North Korean guy leaving from South Korea, the specialists informed RFA Monday. The state-run Korea Central News Firm (KCNA) reported […]

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North Koreans who stop working to wear masks deal with a minimum of 3 months of “disciplinary labor” with harsher charges for people captured slipping into China under tough new COVID-19 avoidance measures, authorities in the nation informed RFA Thursday. The penalties, to be imposed by trainees conscripted into facemask patrols, were presented today in […]

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A fire at a train station in the North Korean city of Sinuiju ruined a freight train bring numerous lots of cooking oil from China and a warehouse full of freight, witnesses who saw the blaze from throughout the Chinese border informed RFA Friday. People in Dandong, China, throughout the Yalu river border from Sinuiju […]

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Great deals of North Korean workers are stranded in China– made out of work by the coronavirus, however not able to return home till they fulfill hard cash quotas set by the federal government in Pyongyang that exports their labor and takes more than 90 percent of their earnings. The workers, along with the North […]

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A new COVID-19 outbreak at 2 significant factories in the North Korean commercial center of Chongjin has actually triggered authorities to block the nation’s 3rd biggest city, an extreme action not seen in Pyongyang’s preliminary substantial actions to the pandemic in January, sources informed RFA. While North Korea openly declares that it has actually not […]

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Ships bring grain identified as “construction materials” have actually been cruising from a northeastern Chinese port to close-by North Korea, dockworkers informed RFA, explaining a secret operation run during the night kept to prevent international analysis. North Korea, which has actually had problem with persistent food insecurity for years, suffered a substantial financial shock in […]

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North Korea has actually exploded a display inter-Korean conference hall and pushed people to sign up with staged venting rallies to show its fury at what it deems traitors who have actually left to South Korea, after little groups of them introduced balloons bring brochures knocking leader Kim Jong Un. Not all North Koreans are […]

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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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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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