A mother of two grade schoolers, Kim Moon-sook is an enthusiastic proponent of walking tours of royal Joseon tombs, some of ...

The acrid smell of antiseptic hung in the air of the makeshift field hospital near Hamhung, North Korea. It was November 7, 1950, and US Marine First Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee lay on a cot with a ...

Eighty-nine-year-old Aiko Nakamoto has never returned to Japan after moving with her husband to Hamhung, his hometown in North Korea, in 1960. Now, her sister, Keiko Hayashi, 69, and Keiko’s ...

The Hamhung diocesan territory stretches over 52,322 square kilometers and covers Hamkyongnam and Hamkyongbuk provinces. However, its southern part belongs to Tokwon Territorial Abbacy in North Korea.

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North Korea, in return for assisting Moscow’s war in Ukraine, is gaining access to Russia’s advanced technology and weaponry, upgrading the regime's war machine ...

Pyongyang and Hamhung dioceses and the Territorial Abbacy of Tokwon, all in North Korea, are its suffragans. In 1992, Seoul archdiocese introduced the Small Christian Community (SCC) movement by ...