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Chinese personnel returned to North Korea last month for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, as Pyongyang appears to ...
Photos show daily life in remote parts of North Korea and its capital, Pyongyang. Slogans and propaganda are common sights on ...
Journalists, such as the two Americans being detained in North Korea, do travel to the border between China and North Korea to get a sense of what life is like in the isolated nation of 22 ...
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Kim Jong Un has transformed the once-bustling border city of Hyesan into an isolated, tightly controlled area by dismantling ...
Illegal smuggling between North Korea and China is nothing new. Even after the UN strengthened sanctions against North Korea in 2017, North Korea has continued to smuggle coal, petroleum ...
A waiting game The question facing China’s North Korea-focused travel agencies now is when — or if — those links will reopen. Although Weng’s group wasn’t affected by the sudden border closure ...