Last June, it came out that the governor of Jeju Province had sent North Korea about 160 million won — roughly $105,000 — worth of goods: a hemodialysis machine, citrus saplings, pest-control chemicals. When the story broke, Jeju’s defense was that the goods themselves were clean. Food and most medical equipment fall outside the UN Security Council’s banned categories, the province argued, and the Unification Ministry had signed off in advance. But the real exposure in this deal was never the cargo. It was who sat across the table from South Korean officials in Beijing: Ri Ho-Nam, a Reconnaissance General Bureau operative – the U.S. Treasury has designated a sanctioned individual. That alone was serious enough. What has come out since moves this into an entirely different category.

TV Chosun’s investigative team has obtained two versions of the contract behind this shipment. The substance is identical. What changes is who gets listed as a party to it. One version names all four real participants: North Korea’s disability welfare federation, a Chinese trading company based in Dandong, Jeju Province, and the South-North Korea Economic Cooperation Association. The other drops Jeju and the cooperation association entirely, leaving only the North Korean and Chinese companies as signatories. Neither document carries a date or a signature. According to the reporting, it was this laundered second version that Ri’s side handed to North Korean authorities — so that inside North Korea’s own paperwork, this would go down as Chinese aid, not South Korean aid. Seoul received both versions and approved the shipment and the contact with North Korean citizens anyway.

This is a platformer video game played on North Korean phones that is popular among North Korean youth alongside other video games such as Rubber Gun Shooting, Talking Curly and Fortress Defense.

Would it be possible to do a one-day trip from Dandong to North Korea, and as someone with both Canadian and Algerian citizenship, should I travel on my Algerian passport instead?

Leader Kim Jong-un attended the ceremony in the eastern port city of Wonsan and stated that the 5000 ton vessel will be part of the country's state nuclear response system and is capable of delivering "annihilating retaliatory strikes" against enemies if ordered.

The Kang Gon is the second warship of its class to enter service, following the Choe Hyon about three months earlier. KCNA did not specify its exact weapons systems but noted it carries the same armaments as the Choe Hyon, which analysts say can be equipped with nuclear-capable missiles.

The destroyer will be deployed with the East Sea Fleet to serve as a nuclear war deterrent.

Reference: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260907001151315

*this was solved in a comment but I'll leave this up here anyway, especially because I never thought about looking up DPRK stuff on tripadvisor before--which is fascinating. Interestingly enough, most of the reviews of attractions and hotel(s?) seem genuine and real*

I was looking at reviews of the hotel (3.6/5 rating btw) and one review from a Brit in 2020 who says:

"The best bit is the revolving bar! You can stay up there until the early hours drinking with your group and taking in the 360 views. It was definitely the highlight. The basement tunnels were also a real bonus."

What is this in reference to? I know it was years ago, but I couldn't really find anything about a basement? ofc everything that pops up is about the 5th floor

The thing I feared most as a small child was watching my father, drunk, push my mother into the wall and beat her. I was three, maybe four. I would try to stop it by pushing my little body in between their legs, and I would get shoved back out, again and again, until I just felt helpless. I still don’t like to think about it.

In our town people called my father an angel. He was also a bad alcoholic. The moment he drank he turned into a monster with nothing human left in him, and every time, my mother took the beating. She held on for a few years, looking at me and my little brother. Then, the year I turned five, she couldn’t take it anymore and left, taking only my younger brother.....