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 ...

The first leg of her journey was a 12-hour car ride from Pyongyang north to the border town of Hyesan. There she paid a Chinese broker $3,000 to facilitate her escape.

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. April 7, 2025 ...