Korea JoongAng Daily on MSN

North Korea enacts urban development law to provide better living conditions

North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament has enacted an urban development law aimed at modernizing city environments to provide ...
Korea JoongAng Daily on MSN

North Korea's Kim inspects regional factories ahead of official opening

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited several regional factories ahead of their official opening, stressing the ...

North Korea’s rich flaunt fur coats, Chanel cosmetics, as poor freeze without insulation

Wealthy residents living near the border with China are buying high-end luxury items brought in by ethnic Chinese traders.
Human Rights Watch

Submission on North Korea’s Implementation of Recommendations from the Third and Fourth Cycles of the Universal Periodic Review for the Special Rapporteur’s Report

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...
WVXU

'I was so stunned': Brokers for North Korean defectors investigated for espionage

There are nearly 35,000 defectors from North Korea living in South Korea. Many of them rely on a secretive network of brokers to check on their families back home or to send them money when their ...
Yahoo

Seoul asks North Korea for advance notice of dam release

A visitor looks through binoculars across the Imjin River to North Korea in a photo from 2021. South Korea’s Unification Ministry on Friday asked the North to give advance notice before releasing ...

News from outside disappears in North Korea

Despite setbacks in efforts to spread outside news in North Korea, Lee Young-hyeon, a defector-turned-lawyer in South Korea, ...