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Nov 5, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Ahn Chang Gyu
Construction on a new hospital in North Korea is struggling to meet deadlines, so authorities told doctors and nurses to put down the stethoscope and pick up the toolbelt, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia. The country’s leader Kim Jong Un last August ordered construction of the new hospital in an industrial area of Hamju county, in the eastern province of South Hamgyong, but he also said that he wanted it finished by the end of 2024.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Ahn Chang Gyu
Read a version of this story in KoreanNorth Korean authorities are providing the public with “foul tasting” wheat paste as a substitute for doenjang, the fermented soybean paste that is a staple in Korean cuisine, residents told Radio Free Asia. Something magic happens in the traditional making of soy sauce: when the salty liquid is siphoned off the top, the urn it’s been fermenting in still holds a treasure.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Ahn Chang Gyu
Read a version of this story in KoreanNorth Korean authorities are providing the public with “foul tasting” wheat paste as a substitute for doenjang, the fermented bean paste that is a staple in Korean cuisine, residents told Radio Free Asia. Something magic happens in the traditional making of soy sauce: when the salty liquid is siphoned off the top, the urn it’s been fermenting in still holds a treasure.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Ahn Chang Gyu |Park Jaewoo
Kim Jong Un recently shocked North Korean flood victims when he addressed them in a speech that contained words and phrases commonly used by South Koreans – terms that would get ordinary citizens in hot water, residents told Radio Free Asia.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Young Kim |Ahn Chang Gyu |Park Jaewoo
Quotes of the Day:"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."– Aristotle"The last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way." – Dr. Viktor E. Frankl1. S. Korea, U.S., Japan leaders to announce joint statement Sunday to mark Camp David summit2.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Ahn Chang Gyu
North Korea is warning private money changers that the government will confiscate their foreign and domestic currency if they change U.S. dollars into North Korean won at a rate significantly higher than official rates at banks. The move is aimed at stabilizing the exchange rate between the dollar and the won, which has been skyrocketing recently. Until last summer, the rate hovered around 8,000 won per dollar but now it is around 13,000 or 14,000 on the black market.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Ahn Chang Gyu |Kim Jieun
North Korean trading companies have been contacting factories and companies in China about hiring more North Korean workers as Pyongyang seeks to bring in more foreign currency for its struggling economy, two sources told Radio Free Asia. “North Korean trading companies are scrambling right now to find Chinese business partners,” said a source from China’s Jilin province who requested anonymity for personal safety.
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May 13, 2024 | 
myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Yang Ji-ho |Ahn Chang Gyu |Kim Seung-yeon |Lee Chae Un
In Honor of Yu Gwan Sun and the March 1st 1919 Korean Independence Movement Quotes of the Day: I make no apologies to Leon Trotsky: "America may not be interested in irregular, unconventional, and political warfare but irregular, unconventional, and political warfare are being practiced around the world by those who are interested in them – namely the revisionist, rogue, and revolutionary powers and violent extremist organizations who want to create dilemmas for the United States and the free...
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May 13, 2024 | 
rfa.org | Ahn Chang Gyu
New recruits in the North Korean army are pleading with their parents through the military base fence, almost begging them to buy them food, because they aren’t getting enough during the weeklong registration, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia. “The spring military draft has reached its final stage.
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May 4, 2024 | 
lrt.lt | Ahn Chang Gyu
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