North Korean Children Left Untreated After Tuberculous Meningitis Outbreak

A recent outbreak of tuberculous meningitis in North Korea has left many children dead and others crippled after authorities failed to diagnose and treat the infection in a timely manner, according to sources inside the country.Many parents have also been unable to cure their sons and daughters of the...

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North Korean Files Rare Complaint Against Authorities to Get Son’s Body

A North Korean woman has filed a formal complaint against central authorities, demanding the return of the body of her son who died in prison just before he was to be released, in a rare move in the isolated country where citizens can be punished for challenging the totalitarian regime, according to...

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North Korea Withholds Salaries From Earners Abroad Ahead of Workers’ Party Anniversary

North Korea’s regime has been withholding salaries from its overseas workers under the pretext of securing funds to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party next month, though their overseers are receiving payment as usual, according to sources.North Koreans sent to China to bring...

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Grim Fate For Women Repatriated to North Korea After Forays Into China

North Korean has been detaining an increasing number of women in the past few years for crossing the border into China in search of food and opportunities to work for their families’ survival, according to a human rights report on the country’s gulag-style penal system issued Friday. Authorities...

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Kim Regime Imposes Mandatory Donations on North Koreans For Flood Recovery

North Koreans have condemned mandatory, regime-imposed donations of cash and goods to help with flood recovery efforts in the northeastern city of Rason, disparaging leader Kim Jong Un as a “vampire” who uses such guises to exploit the people, sources inside the country said.North Koreans hurl curses...

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North Koreans Arrested For Viewing Chinese Military Parade Broadcast

Authorities in North Korea have arrested a number of people who were found to have removed jamming devices on their televisions in order to watch coverage of a massive military parade in China last week, according to sources inside the reclusive state.Television sets produced in North Korea have included...

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North Korean Teachers Gear Up For ‘Ideological Battle’ With Students

North Korean authorities have organized nationwide lecture classes to prepare teachers in all schools for an “ideological battle” with students over an increase in socially undesirable behavior and criminal acts among young people, sources inside the country said.The newly launched classes at teacher...

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Global NGO To Redistribute Flood Aid in North Korea’s Rason

The Red Cross plans to reallocate disaster relief funds to North Korea to assist with cleanup and rebuilding efforts from recent floods that devastated a special economic zone in the northeastern part of the country, sources familiar with the situation said.The International Federation of Red Cross...

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North Korean Authorities Purge Border Guards After Shooting Incident, Defections

Scores of officers and rank-and-file soldiers from North Korea’s border guard unit have been rounded up and are under investigation by a special inspection team of the country’s Workers’ Party, following an incident earlier this year in which two of the guards crossed the border and killed two Chinese,...

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Interview: Korean Accord to 'Increase the Illusion of a Reasonable North Korea'

After marathon talks from Aug. 23 to 25, the two Koreas struck a six-point agreement to defuse military tension and increase inter-Korean cooperation. Under the agreement, South Korea halted anti-N. Korean loudspeaker broadcasts that made N. Korea bristle, while North Korea cancelled its semi-war status...

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