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〈Photo Report- 8 (a) 〉 The Best Department Store in Pyongyang – But the...
2013/July/02 Report by Gu Gwang-ho (Original Report – Sep, 2011) Everyone in Korea knows the Pyongyang Department Store No. 1. It’s the number one state-owned department store with the longest and most...
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〈Photo Report- 8 (b) 〉 The Best Department Store in Pyongyang – But the...
2013/July/03 Report by Gu Gwang-ho (Original Report – Sep, 2011) <<PREVIOUS – PART 8 (a) The mechanism is as follows. Those who have “exchange coupons” given out by the government are allowed to...
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＜PHOTO REPORT＞Sino – North Korea Border ［PART1］Wire Fence Installed Upstream...
2014/April/18 (This report first appeared in the Korean and Japanese edition of the ASIAPRESS North Korea report in March 2014. All the information is from that report.) Written by KANG Ji-won, a...
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＜PHOTO REPORT＞Sino – North Korea Border: ［PART2］A Sign of Late Spring In the...
2014/April/19 (This report first appeared in the Korean and Japanese edition of the ASIAPRESS North Korea report in March 2014. All the information is from that report.) Written by ISHIMARU Jiro (All...
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＜PHOTO REPORT＞Sino – North Korea Border: ［PART3］Tensions High In The Border...
2014/April/20 (This report first appeared in the Korean and Japanese edition of the ASIAPRESS North Korea report in March 2014. All the information is from that report.) Written by ISHIMARU Jiro (All...
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＜PHOTO REPORT＞Sino – North Korea Border ［PART1］Things Still Tense in Border...
2014/June/10 Report/Photo:KANG Ji-won Edit: PAEK Chang-ryong (Both members of the reporting team are North Korean defectors) The ASIAPRESS North Korea Reporting Team travelled to the Sino – North...
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[PHOTO REPORT] Winter, people strive to overcome the water crisis by drinking...
2015/June/08 Report: Team Mindeulle Edit: ISHIMARU Jiro, Editor in Chief, Rimjin-gang During the winter, North Koreans are faced with the challenge of how to find water for their domestic use. This is...
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North Korea IT Report – PART1: Kids Master Emoticons and Movies with Mobile...
2015/July/19 Written by LEE Jin-su, Editor; Rimjin-gang The number of mobile phone users in North Korea recently surpassed the 2 million mark. This means that now some 10 percent of the country are...
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People are exploited in mobilized for forced labor (1) Urban view
2015/11/6 Residents in an apartment complex are mobilized to pave sidewalk. Seosung District in Pyongyang on August 2011. Taken by Koo Gwang-ho/ASIAPRESS The reason North Korea can still sustain...
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People are exploited in mobilized labor (2) Recorded women’s complaining...
People who were mobilized for river improvement are gleaning stones. Taken by ASIA PRESS at a local city of northern area on June 2013 The mobilized labor is performed by the unit of work place and...
View Article〈Photo Report 4〉Inspection At The Metro Station Entrance –“No Shabby Cloths,...
[2011/Dec/16] The government often sets up inspection checkpoints at metro stations and prevents persons with shabby clothes and large pieces of luggage from travelling, keeping them well away from the...
View Article〈Photo Report 5〉 Malnutrition Rampant Among The People’s Army
[2011/Dec/17] In a small square near the market, a group of around ten young men, all soldiers, are sitting; all look seriously debilitated. Their cheeks are sunken; arms, legs and...
View Article〈Photo Report- 6 (a)〉 The Government’s Command is for a “Strong and...
[2013/Jun/17] In the capital city Pyongyang, a fully-fledged construction boom has been in place since the summer of 2011. This is part of the "Day of the Sun" on April 15, 2012, in other...
View Article〈Photo Report- 6 (b)〉 “Strong and Prosperous Nation”– The State Project to...
[2013/Jun/18] This was a high-rise apartment block, and yet it was being built as a rush job, and the location and size of the windows were distorted.
View Article〈Photo Report – 7〉 Traffic Policewomen Relentlessly Pursue Bicycle Riders to...
[2013/Jul/28] In Pyongyang, attractive young policewomen wearing characteristic uniforms with peaked caps, white jackets, and royal blue skirts are a common sight in many traffic...
View Article＜Photo Report on N.Korea＞ Latest Textbooks for N.Korean Middle & High...
ASIA PRESS acquired textbooks that are currently used at middle and high school of North Korea. The total copies are 77, which were secretly carried out of North Korea through an acquaintance there by...
View Article＜Photo Report on N.Korea＞ N.Korean People’s Army Facing State of Starvation
"North Korea is a military power." North Korean regime has succeeded in imprinting that image to the world during the last ten years...
View Article＜Photo Report＞ Kotchebi, the Homeless, Under the Kim Jong-un Regime (PART2)...
The North Korean state media has often announced that Kim Jong-un visited newly established large-scale orphanages in Pyongyang and Wonsan...
View Article＜Photo Report＞ Kotchebi, the Homeless, Under the Kim Jong-un Regime (PART3) A...
The North Korean state-owned media has repeatedly broadcasted Kim Jong-un visiting orphanages since the beginning of his regime in 2012...
View Article＜Photo Report＞ Kotchebi, the Homeless, Under the Kim Jong-un Regime (PART4)...
This part introduces a child “Kotchebi”–the Homeless–in Ryanggang Province (located at the China-North Korea border)...
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