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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 [...]
As an opportunity for investors, the results at Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) do not suggest stellar performance. For example, in 2011 (six years into operation), the average profits for the 123 companies at KIC barely equalled the annual salary of one worker employed by a South Korean company. In the same year, the debt for [...]
In this guest piece, Nicolas Levi examines the background of Ro Song Sil and the Korean Democratic Women’s Union headed by her. If we are to engage within the framework of the North Korean state in the economic sphere, the KDWU is proposed as a good place to start. Ro Song Sil is the current [...]
A little-known secret about the Kims, North Korea’s ruling family, has been disclosed to New Focus by one of our trusted correspondents deep within the regime. We are as wary of numerology as you may be, but that does not mean the Kims are as discerning. Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il were both very superstitious [...]
Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman and some of the Harlem Globetrotters visited North Korea between February 26th and March 1st. One of the Americans who was on the trip with Rodman approached us about another matter to do with North Korea and shared some interesting details about the trip. The contact did not wish to be [...]
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