Cross-border smuggling in Hyesan has been suspended for more than a month after Chinese authorities intensified enforcement ...

North Korean rice prices have settled around 12,000 won per kilogram after breaking the 10,000 won barrier for the first time ...

N. Korean ice sculpture festival . An ice sculpture festival is under way in the city of Samjiyon, Ryanggang Province, at the ...

Ryanggang province is one of the border areas where North Korean officials for years have struggled to clamp down on smuggling. An official from South Korea’s Unification Ministry, ...

On Thursday the country said that it had locked down the area and mobilized medical teams after four fever cases were reported from Ryanggang Province, but that it was not COVID-19, over which the ...

Two weeks after North Korea declared victory over the coronavirus, the country has reported four suspected cases in a province near its border with China. The area where the suspected cases were ...

North Korea on Friday said the latest fever cases detected in its border region with China were tested to be influenza, not coronavirus infections as initially feared.

North Korea said on Friday it had confirmed that cases of unknown fever reported near its border with China were patients with the flu, state media reported.