The recent disappearance of a wealthy entrepreneur's family in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, has sent shockwaves through the ...

The Hyesan Forestry Machine Factory was forced to retract an overtime work order just one day after it was issued.

I left my home in North Korea’s countryside on Feb. 17, 2011, but the actual act of leaving North Korea was not immediate. I ...

Lee Seongmin has become key to Kyiv’s efforts to understand the soldiers sent by Kim Jong Un to fight for Russia.

"Everyone knows our military is being sent to Russia now, even if we don't know how many casualties there are," one source from Hyesan told ASIAPRESS. Spring is traditionally the time of year when ...

Lee left North Korea in his early 20s with his mother. They fled their hometown of Hyesan, a North Korean city that borders China, where Lee earned money by smuggling Chinese DVDs, electric fans ...

Pyongyang has sent around 11,000 soldiers to help Putin's army repel an incursion by Ukraine's military into the Kursk region ...

Advert He also managed to take a picture of a watchtower in North Korea's city of Hyesan - which depicts a soldier wearing a face mask spotting him, and what appears to be a dummy looking out the ...

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The trio were brutally murdered before an audience of terrified locals, including children, in the village of Songjong-ri, ...