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

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

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 ...

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 … ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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