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November 27, 2020 North Korea

NK’s trade with China drops 70% this year

North Korea’s trade with China shrank by over 70 percent this year, with the North shutting down borders with its main trade partner in January in hopes to fend off COVID-19. North Korea’s trade wit...

DP, government discuss post-jail rehab facility for violent criminals

The ruling Democratic Party and the government on Thursday discussed legislation to isolate violent criminals in a rehabilitation facility for a while after their release from prison. DP floor leade...

November 26, 2020
Politics
[News Analysis] Blinken likely to pursue multilateral, step-by-step approach on NK

US President-elect Joe Biden named Tony Blinken, his closest foreign policy adviser who also served as deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration, as his secretary of state, drawing attent...

November 24, 2020
North Korea
People with tattoos can be police officers under new police recruitment rules

People with tattoos can become police officers, as long as the tattoos are covered by their uniforms and are not repulsive, under revised rules on police recruitment. Until now, the police have judg...

November 23, 2020
Social affairs
Monday was coldest day this fall in Seoul

Temperatures fell to minus 1.5 degrees Celsius in Seoul on Monday morning, making it the coldest day so far this fall season. Due to the inflow of cold air from the northwest overnight, temperatures...

November 23, 2020
Social affairs
Prime minister asks Koreans to stay home

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Friday asked Koreans to stay home as rising COVID-19 cases feed concerns of another wave of infections. In what is his sixth address about COVID-19 to the Korean peo...

November 20, 2020
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] ‘CIA took North Korea leader’s nephew’

The US Central Intelligence Agency took the family of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, after Kim Jong-nam was murdered in February 2017, although it is unclear where...

November 18, 2020
North Korea
[News Focus] Choo slammed for bill to give police phone access

Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae’s plans to introduce legislation that would force criminal suspects to disclose their mobile phone security codes during investigations has drawn strong criticism from the...

November 17, 2020
Social affairs
People Power Party chief pushes for apology over jailed ex-presidents

The People Power Party’s interim leader Kim Chong-in is pushing the party to issue a public apology over the country’s two jailed former presidents, Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, who ran on previo...

November 17, 2020
Politics
Ahn woos chief prosecutor who rose to presidential hopeful in polls

A minor opposition party leader has wooed the prosecutor general who suddenly rose to presidential hopeful in polls thanks to his defiance against the justice minister. Chief prosecutor Yoon Seok-yo...

November 13, 2020
Politics
[Herald Interview] Biden will be tough on China, but likely to rescind tariffs, experts say

US President-elect Joe Biden faces a number of crises at home, such as the coronavirus and its ensuing economic fallout, as well as a deep partisan divide and civil unrest. Such domestic imperatives ...

November 12, 2020
Foreign affairs
NK parliament adopts non-smoking law

The standing committee of the North Korean parliament adopted a non-smoking law and a revised corporate law, the North’s state media reported on Thursday. Under the new law, smoking is banned in des...

November 5, 2020
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Finance minister, other chiefs get COVID-19 tests

Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki and scores of other chiefs of governmental and private organizations got tested for the coronavirus Wednesday at the health authorities’ request. Results were not known a...

November 4, 2020
Social affairs
Opposition slams ruling party for fielding Seoul, Busan mayoral candidates

The ruling Democratic Party decided to revise its rules and officially nominate candidates for mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan in April, as a majority of party members voted in favor of the p...

November 2, 2020
Politics
NK blames killing of S. Korean civilian on Seoul

North Korea on Friday blamed the Seoul government on its killing of a South Korean civilian, calling it an “accident” stemming from Pyongyang’s efforts to prevent the spread of COVID. According to t...

October 30, 2020
North Korea

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