Tag Archives: Chongjin

Food Prices Still Unstable in NK

January 17, 2012   LFNKR, North Korea

January Market Prices in DPRK

Prices shown in this chart were gathered in our own privately conducted survey in Chongjin City, Onsong , Hamgyon Prov. and Hyesan Ryanggang Prov.

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Japan Needs Refugee Settlement Program ASAP

August 15, 2007   Defectors, North Korea, Public Awareness, Resettling in Japan

Special Report by Kato Hiroshi

Shock waves rocked Japan recently when four North Korean defectors sailed into Funaura port in Aomori Prefecture (northeastern Japan) in a seven-meter wooden boat whose top speed was just 10 knots . The arrival of the four family members on Japanese shores from Chongjin, 850 km away, after ten days at sea, was nothing short of miraculous. 

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