North Korea has banned two popular dishes from being sold in restaurants because they are South Korean in origin, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.
North Korea has added the “rooster hairstyle” and blouses with see-through sleeves to its banned fashion list, saying they “obscure the image of a socialist system,” sources inside the country said.
A group of North Korean defectors based in Seoul launched a news website with the aim of exposing North Korean human rights abuses.They also want to provide a more nuanced perspective about their homeland.
Authorities in North Korea are showing propaganda videos meant to scare people off watching media from rival South Korea, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.
North Korea is opening more information technology exchange centers across the country – facilities that sell apps to the growing number of smartphone users, residents told Radio Free Asia.
North Korean authorities are cracking down on people who use unregistered laptops and tablets to keep them from watching foreign “anti-socialist” videos, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.
South Korean authorities said Tuesday it detained a North Korean boat carrying four people believed to be seeking to defect, to assess the legitimacy of their intentions.
North Korea has sentenced a woman to three years in prison for talking on the phone to her daughter who had escaped the country and resettled in South Korea, sources in the North told Radio Free Asia.
North Korea is one of the most closed-off countries, especially to foreign media. However, years of reporting from within the country helped Jean Lee, the first American news bureau chief in Pyongyang, in providing the audience with a more comprehensive understanding of the country.
The holiday spirit in North Korea is at a low ebb as higher prices for meat, rice and other foods make celebrating the Lunar New Year a costly affair, sources in the country told Radio Free Asia.