Hamhung, North Korea News

North Korean organizations in charge of raising foreign currency are bringing in and burying industrial waste from China for money, a report released yesterday said.

The hacking unit of the North Korean military is drawing attention as major South Korean Web sites, including those of defense and other government agencies and think tanks, have been recently hacked.

With the international community tightening economic sanctions on North Korean entities for their alleged involvement in nuclear and weapons activities, Pyongyang is ever more eager to earn hard currency.

The world, on the brink of war, awaits America's decision. Confronted with an apparent no-win situation, President Obama has made the decision.

Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-eun, who has been in North Korea apparently waiting to meet leader Kim Jong-il, has been out of touch since around 9 a.m. Thursday.

According to the KNCA , KJI was in Hamhung visiting a naval university and watching a plan and no doubt taking in that city's wonderful collection of East German-designed Bauhaus architecture .

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il noted that the Navy was particularly important to ensure security in the republic during a visit to the major Military Maritime University in Hamhung, eastern North Korea, the KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday without specifying the date of the visit.

North Korea on Monday celebrated the completion of what it has hailed as a "world-class" hotel in the Majon resort area in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, North Korean Central Broadcasting reported Tuesday.

North Korea on Monday celebrated the completion of what it has hailed as a "world-class" hotel in the Majon resort area in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, North Korean Central Broadcasting reported Tuesday.

Dancing parties of youth and students were held in various parts of the country on Monday to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, July 1, 2009, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, visits the Hamhung Semiconductor Materials Factory in Hamhung, North Korea.

July 8, 2009: In this image made off KRT footage distributed by APTN, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center front, is seen during the 15th anniversary of the death of Kim Il-sung, his father and founder of the country, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

The decision on who will become North Korea's next leader may not be final despite reports that Kim Jong Il has tapped his youngest son to succeed him, South Korea's defense chief said.

North Korea on Saturday fired seven missiles into the East Sea from a launch site near Wonsan, Kangwon Province.

The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppets desperately perpetrated aerial espionage against the DPRK in June by mobilizing strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes with various missions, according to a military source.

SEOUL:The Democratic People's Republic of Korea fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspects the Hamhung Semiconductor Materials Factory and the Hamhung Branch of the State Academy of Sciences in South Hamgyong province.

The decision on who will become North Korea's next leader may not be final despite reports that Kim Jong Il has tapped his youngest son to succeed him, South Korea's defense chief said.

In 1964, the New York Times praised a new novel described as a great piece of work 'whose moral and psychological features are inherited from Dostoevsky and Camus.' In the U.S., the novel remained on the bestseller list for 20 straight weeks.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed the opera "The Dream of the Red Chamber" at the Hamhung Grand Theatre.