A woman in her 30s in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, was arrested by provincial state security officers on charges of leaking ...

Used car prices have skyrocketed in the North Korean border city of Hyesan since smuggling operations were suspended in ...

A University, released a new book documenting the lives of North Korean residents in areas near the northern border of the country.

She said: "Hyesan often experienced heavy snowfall, at least ankle-deep, which students had to clear before classes began. "As a result, lessons usually started from the second or third period on ...

Hyesan’s isolation is emblematic of North Korea’s broader retreat. Before the pandemic, more than 1,000 North Koreans fled to the South annually. In 2023, fewer than 200 made it—most of whom ...

The city of Hyesan, just over the river from China, once offered a glimpse of a more open North Korea. Now it exemplifies Kim Jong Un’s mounting authoritarianism.

The city of Hyesan, just over the river from China, once offered a glimpse of a more open North Korea. Now it exemplifies Kim Jong Un’s mounting authoritarianism.

I left my home in North Korea’s countryside on Feb. 17, 2011, but the actual act of leaving North Korea was not immediate. I spent more than a month hiding in Hyesan in the home of the broker ...

An interviewee who defected to the South in 2018 from the Chinese border city of Hyesan said his friend was arrested by the MSS while trying to recover a Chinese mobile phone hidden in the ...

In Hyesan, the price of rice has been above 6,000 won since the end of March. In mid-September, the price of rice in North Korean marketplaces was at an all-time high.

This picture taken on March 1, 2024, shows a watchtower on the border in the North Korean village of Hyesan as seen from Changbai in China's northeast Jilin province.

In a horrific 2012 case also in Hyesan, a child was executed with Kalashnikov rifles. Describing the killing, a defector said: 'Blood was splattered and flesh was tattered.