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Leave no suggestions in the suggestions box! In South Korea, every public and commercial building has a customer suggestions box. They are visible in all public spaces and in taxis, too. There are even TV programs that deal with customer complaints. A similar system exists in North Korea, or at least it appears to. North [...]
Amid North Korea’s apparent efforts at preventing defections and orchestrating re-defections, New Focus International has learned that Moon Hyeok-Chul (aged 52) is the latest defector to have gone missing under suspicious circumstances. He left North Korea in 2005 and had been working as a bus driver in South Korea. Both Moon’s colleagues and members of [...]
DPRK Overseas Missions Tasked With Urgent Duty A NFI correspondent working as an overseas DPRK business agent notified us of a recent emergency order issued to DPRK overseas missions. According to this information, overseas war veterans are to be persuaded to return to Pyongyang for July 27th – celebrated as Armistice Day in South Korea [...]
North Korea’s state newspaper (Rodong Sinmun) and official news agency (KCNA) have released in recent years an average of at least 300 articles a month relating to the cult of Kim. In deifying Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, DPRK state media refers to them as “Eternal Chairmen of the National Defense Commission of [...]
The Hero of North Korea’s Grade 1 War-Readiness State On May 8th, Rodong Sinmun revealed that Ri Kyong-Sim, a 22 year-old traffic policewoman from Pyongyang’s People’s Security Department, was named a ‘Hero of the Republic’. The story was publicized in South Korean media and internationally by AFP news agency, who suggested that “she might have intervened [...]
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