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

Hoeryong sits near the mouth of the Yalu river on the spit of land that borders both Chinese Manchuria and Russia. [Putin: Downing of Russian warplane by Turkey ‘stab in the back ...

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 ...

Ahn Myong Chol is a former prison guard at Hoeryong-Area prison in North Korea. He worked at four different camps and discussed with NBC News the atrocities he saw — and committed — at those ...

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 ...