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Large Private Cash Loans Available in North

- Interest Money providing private loans
- Moneyed Govt officials becoming money lenders
- Main borrowers those dealing in drugs and metal
- Trouble arising as borrowers unable to repay loans

Report - Human Rights in NK

The Grand National Party Should Step Forward to the Campaign to Rescue the Daughter of Tongyeong

Truth about outside world needs to made known to the North Koreans

Kim Jong Il Watching the Death of Qaddafi Will Strengthen Crackdown over the People

ICNK Working Actively to Stop Crimes against Humanity in North Korea

“Storm Troop” Forces Immediate Repatriation.

Around 20 Defectors Arrested

“Rescue the Daughter of Tongyeong!”

Politics

North Korea Bolsters Chinese Border Deployment

People Ordered to Stay at Home, Hope for Reform

Economy & Society

Hyesan Family Arrested as they Seek Defection

North Korean Authorities Restrict Use of Printers

South Korean Soju for Sale in North Korean Markets

- North Koreans prefer SK soju taste
- Marketeers keep stock of ten bottles for sale
- Brought across Chinese border by traders and smugglers
- South Korean products occupying more market space in North Korea

NK Media

New York Times: ‘Open News for North Korea the Only Media to Report Cancelation of Kim Jong-Il’s Visit’

Face NK Reality

Kim Jong-eun's 6 Plastic Surgery Procedures: The Making of a Mini-Kim Il-sung?

North Korea Bolsters Chinese Border Deployment

- 20,000 more troops guarding border region,bR>- Attempted defectors enemies of the system
- People robbing to get by

People Ordered to Stay at Home, Hope for Reform

- People in Sinuiju welcome Kim Jong-il's death
- Hope for openness and reform
- Mourning period characterized by greater security observation

Death of Kim Jong-il: NK Embassy in China Notified Before Announcement

Death of Kim Jong-il: NK Security Ministry Bans All Gatherings of More than 5 People

NK Security Agency Claim Japan Defector Group Recaptured

- Propagandizing the arrest of defectors who gave press conference in Japan
- People in border areas warned not to attempt defection
- Authorities fabricating stories of arrest

Hyesan Family Arrested as they Seek Defection

-7 member family arrested 13th November near Kim Jong-suk military base by the river
-Regime lecturing North Koreans not to use handphones
-Suspicion of political motivation behind their attempt, stricter sentence

External Hard Drives Used to Avoid Crackdown

- Popular as a method to avoid detection watching foreign movies
- Purchasers paying in advance of hard drive receipt
- Authorities struggling to stem the tide
- Elite and governing classes have preference for the hardwa..

North Korean Authorities Restrict Use of Printers

- Private papers and subversive humor being produced
- Popular and quickly disseminated
- Authorities fear a loosening of means of thought control

Tumen River Heavily Polluted

-Open Radio witnesses pollution during news gathering
-Influx of black water from direction of Musan Mine
-Large number of red trucks conveying iron ore to China daily

Hundred Families Fled Border Region Since Chuseok

- Official crackdown strengthened after 9 defectors escape through Chongjin
- Authorities supposed to report on each other ignoring official decree
- Instead lower levels actively assisting escapees

Pyongyang Youth Seek Out SK Electronic Goods

-Samsung laptops and cameras popular
-Young women favour men with such products
-Students going into debt to amass the dollars necessary to buy

SK Dramas Entertain Bored Pyongyang Housewives

- Number of fans rising amidst the current crackdown
- CDs being watched by officials' wives and female staff in the workplace
- Copies shared out amongst family and friends
- Nothing on NK TV apart from the old propaga..

Animals Perishing at Pyongyang Central Zoo

- Animals starving to death as food supplies dwindle
- Zoo employees stealing chicken, etc, intended for the animals
- Animal numbers steeply decreased
- Blackouts lethal problem to aquarium animals

Chinese Cell Phone Users in NK All Spies

- Order issued to block leaking of info via Chinese cell phones
- National Security Agency using radar devices in border region
- Suspects all viewed as spies and sent to prison camps

The World Must Speak Out About the North Korean Gulag

This article first appeared in the Chosun Ilbo

NK Citizens Ignore Civil Defense Exercise

-Exercise held in Yanggang from the 21st to 22nd September
-Non-participants greater than in recent years
-Trip to stripped mountainside to drink and sing viewed as pointless

Private Tours to North Korea a Letdown

-Chinese tour group visited Rason special development zone in their own cars
-Group consists of government officials and private investors
-Guides accompany group everywhere
-Travelers complain “private” tour is not private

Video Acquired of North Korean Singing Rooms

- Video shows couple in Chongjin in the singing room
- South Korean songs popular choices
- Imported second hand karaoke machines include stored SK songs

Profitability of Insect Collection Harming Rice Production

- Grasshoppers caught and exported to China as delicacies
- Insects exchanged for everyday goods
- Schools using students top boost income

“Stall of Tears” Appear in North Korea Markets

-Individuals selling their possessions as a last resort
-No money or hope for those trapped in NK way of living

North Korean Women Seek Defection for Aids Treatment

-Attemt to find treatment for virus in China
-Contract virus while working as prostitutes in markets
-Men unknowingly contract virus in marketplace as aids rate goes up

North Korea Busy Preparing to Receive American Guests

-US officials could visit NK
-NK hotels stocking up on western food
-NK embassies abroad ordered to send western spirits, ingredients, and crockery
-NK seeking an improvement in relations and investment

Guests in North Korean Restaurants in China Ordering Whatever Kim Jong-il had

- Security agents getting involved with joke which started after Kim Jong-il's visits
- Security agents interest has lessened the frequency of the request
- NK restaurants: not the best food but the best looking waitresses

Open Radio Reports

$ 1.2 Billion will Suffice for NK to Abandon its Nuclear Development

NK Human Rights Act, before the Congress

Radio Inter-Korean Friends

Inter-Korean Friends with English (1)

Another Look at Worker's Daily

Another Look at Worker's Daliy (1)

Bluebird's Society

Bluebird's Society (1)

Unsent Letters

Unsent Letters (1)

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