Located in the country’s second-largest city, Hamhung, the factory has been visited several times by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, with North Korean state media previously touting its mass ...

Eighty-nine-year-old Aiko Nakamoto has never returned to Japan after moving with her husband to Hamhung, his hometown in North Korea, in 1960. Now, her sister, Keiko Hayashi, 69, and Keiko’s ...

The Hamhung diocesan territory stretches over 52,322 square kilometers and covers Hamkyongnam and Hamkyongbuk provinces. However, its southern part belongs to Tokwon Territorial Abbacy in North Korea.

Amid persistent rumors of currency redenomination, North Koreans are increasingly shunning the domestic won in favor of ...

Early last week, the last units of the X Corps column reached Hamhung after a skillful fighting retreat from the Changjin reservoir to the Sea of Japan. Some of the survivors wore colored silk ...

Researchers at a think tank in the US identified the facility, known as the “February 11” plant, which is part of the Ryongsong Machine Complex in Hamhung in North Korea's second-most populous ...

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