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

SEOUL, Sept. 12 (UPI) --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."From what we saw, it is ...

Many brokers work in Hoeryong helping defectors cross the Tumen River into China and arranging illegal marriages for North Korean women with Chinese men.

By all accounts, "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il has never visited the North Korean border town of Hoeryong. Not even to pay tribute to his mother. "We have a museum, library, statue, square and even the ...

SEOUL — In a new crackdown on defections and smuggling to China, the North Korean regime has conducted public executions of at least three people, possibly dozens more, say human-rights ...

Authorities took the aid workers, some of whom represented U.N. agencies, to destroyed medical clinics and to a water pumping station near Hoeryong that was wiped out, leaving 50,000 people ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting the test of a new anti-aircraft guided weapon system (Picture: AFP/Getty Images) Having travelled towards the country’s northern border in 2005, he was ...

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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.