Cross-border smuggling in Hyesan has been suspended for more than a month after Chinese authorities intensified enforcement ...

North Korean rice prices have settled around 12,000 won per kilogram after breaking the 10,000 won barrier for the first time ...

When it snowed, the workload increased further. And Bella faced an average of 63 snowy days per year in her hometown of Hyesan, in the frozen north of the country, close to the Chinese border.

In the late 1990s, after a devastating famine shattered North Korea’s central planning, the border city of Hyesan quietly began to thrive. Located just across a narrow river from China, Hyesan ...

Hyesan, photographed March 1, 2024, from Changbai. For a time, it was even known as the “smuggler's village.”© Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images ...

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 ...

In early November 2024, rumors of troop deployments to Russia started spreading among the residents of the North Korean city of Hyesan, on the border with China.

SEOUL - More than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after being caught by secret police while trying to defect from the isolated country or even for trying to call relatives in South Korea, a ...

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.

Public executions of young North Koreans are on the rise, Seoul says, as Pyongyang seeks to stamp out South Korea's cultural influence. On Thursday, the South Korean Ministry of Unification, an ...