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North Korea is a “Tax-free country,” according to one of its many propaganda slogans, but this is contradicted by defector testimony, which suggests that residents carry a very heavy burden. According to defectors leaving the country after the North’s currency re..
[2010-09-02 16:01] |
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Just like the South, North Korea suffers flooding during the summer rainy season almost every year. However, today’s North Korean citizens are growing more and more concerned about it, since the authorities have not put in place fundamental measures sufficient to a..
[2010-07-01 14:37] |
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On June 6, 1946, the Chosun Children's Union was founded. The Children’s Union, an organization for all children between seven and fourteen, is guided politically by the Science Education Department of the Central Committee of the Party. Its hierarchical structure..
[2010-06-07 18:20] |
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The Chosun Ilbo reported today that South Korean intelligence authorities have collected three types of evidence which they conclude back the idea that North Korea’s General Bureau of Reconnaissance organized the sinking of the Cheonan. Based on intelligence assess..
[2010-05-07 15:11] |
| It is becoming apparent that this year’s growing season will be afflicted by an even more serious lack of fertilizer than normal. Sources predict that farming on collective farms will be negatively affected, and that privately farmed areas will be hit hard. A sourc..
[2010-04-27 15:06] |
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In recent years, April 15th, “The Day of the Sun,” the birthday of Kim Il Sung, has changed, with the annual “special distribution” amounting to little more than two or three kilograms of grain, three or four eggs and a bottle of liquor (500ml).In days gone by,..
[2010-04-15 13:39] |
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In North Korea, April 1st is commemorated as “Tax Abolition Day.” Ever since the law, “On Completely Abolishing Taxes,” was ratified through the Supreme People's Assembly on March 21, 1974, North Korea has claimed both within and without to be the only country i..
[2010-04-05 10:36] |
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In recent days there has been a sudden decrease in both food prices and the North Korean won-dollar exchange rate, so people are looking at the activities of middlemen wholesalers, the lynchpin of the North Korean market economy, in more detail. These wholesalers..
[2010-03-27 13:44] |
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North Korea’s “Land Reform Law” was signed into law on March 5th 1946, and for a while it offered North Korea a way to produce enough food to feed its people. The following are the basic contents of the law as implemented by the North Korean Provisional People's..
[2010-03-05 16:39] |
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Kim Jong Il recently conducted an onsite inspection at a newly constructed pig farm run by the No. 567 Joint Unit of the Chosun People’s Army, according to a Chosun Central News Agency (KCNA) report. The KCNA report said that Kim Jong Il “expressed great satisfact..
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