N. Korea has labeled Chinese-made mobile phone users “remaining roots” and ordered a comprehensive crackdown on illegal phone ...

In the video aired this week, one scene shows hundreds of people, many on bicycles, gathered on a grassy riverbank near Hoeryong’s main market.

Hoeryong is not only a hub for defectors but also for smuggling banned goods such as South Korean and American videos and DVDs, pornography and Chinese-made mobile phones.

If such a thing as a normal childhood can be had in North Korea, Joseph Kim had it. He lived with his father, mother and older sister in Hoeryong, a city that benefits from being the birthplace of … ...

Fortunately for Hoeryong, and the residents of other dusty towns that dot the Sino-Korean border, Chinese traders are willing to come calling. While the country still relies on foreign aid, and ...

That puts Pyongyang in the inconvenient position of having to turn to the international community for help — at the same time North Korea is facing global condemnation after its nuclear test ...

In the 1990s, the city of Hoeryong, North Korea, bore testament to the privations of life under the country’s Stalinist regime. Untold numbers of locals starved to death during a famine that may ...

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More than 100,000 people have been left homeless after flooding last month in North Korea, according to aid workers who went to the area last week.

According to a source based in North Hamgyong province in North Korea, the execution took place on Jan. 10 at the Hoeryong Jongori correctional labor camp in front of other inmates.

Staines was part of a group of 22 international and local staff from 13 aid agencies stationed in Pyongyang who last week visited the northern city of Hoeryong, across the Tumen River from China.