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Kim Jong Un has threatened North Koreans with punishment if they waste food as the country struggles to feed its population following this year’s floods. ‘Strong legal punishment’ awaits those who fail to protect the socialist economy and the welfare of their comrades by wasting food, a new directive from the Central Committee of the … Read more
Torture, humiliation and coerced confessions are rampant in North Korea’s pretrial detention system which treats people as worth ‘less than an animal’, a rights group said on Monday in a report on the country’s opaque legal processes. US-based Human Rights Watch drew on interviews with dozens of former North Korean detainees and officials to highlight … Read more
South Koreans returned to gyms and coffee shops today as the country eased social distancing rules for two weeks after a decline in cases. After suppressing an early Covid-19 surge with extensive testing and tracing, South Korea has battled several spikes in recent weeks, mainly in the Seoul region which is home to half the … Read more
North Koreans are ordered to hand over ‘decadent and bourgeois’ pet dogs so they can be killed and ‘provided to restaurants for meat’ as the country is rocked by food shortages Dictator Kim Jong-un announced in July that owning a pet is now against the law Authorities are identifying homes with dogs in Pyongyang and … Read more
North Koreans desperate to meet scrap metal quotas are plundering in the wreckage of the liaison office with the South that was blown up on Kim Jong-un’s orders. Residents of Kaesong are risking arrest by scavenging in the ruins of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office which was set up in a spirit of unity in 2018 … Read more
North Koreans desperate to meet scrap metal quotas are plundering in the wreckage of the liaison office with the South that was blown up on Kim Jong-un’s orders. Residents of Kaesong are risking arrest by scavenging in the ruins of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office which was set up in a spirit of unity in 2018 … Read more
North Koreans will be given three months’ hard labour for not wearing Covid-19 facemasks under tough new rules Students have been recruited to carry out ‘face mask patrols’ amid crackdown Those not wearing a face mask will be forced to carry out 3 months of labour North Korea has not officially recorded any cases of … Read more
South Koreans hail the return of Kellogg’s green onion-flavored cereal after 16-year campaign to bring it back Kellogg’s has brought back the green onion flavored cereal 16 years after it won Flavour was offered during a ‘presidential election’ stunt but not expected to win Makers halted online voting, threw out votes and declared chocolate the winner … Read more
By: AP | Seoul | Updated: October 20, 2015 11:21:39 am South Korean Sung Soon-hwa, 86, right, weeps as she arrives to take part in family reunions with her North Korean family members at a hotel in Sokcho, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. About 640 other South Koreans will meet their North Korean relatives … Read more