One delivery in March saw more than 2,000 tonnes of wheat supplied to the port of
Chongjin, news agency TASS reported.
Russian Embassy in Pyongyang reported that the aid arrived in the North Korean port of
Chongjin on Monday.
Founded in 1993 and based in Xiamen, ACB has a branch in
Chongjin.
KOTRA's report shows that the real estate market is rapidly growing in large cities in the North such as Nampo, Kaesong,
Chongjin, Sinuiju, Rason, and its capital city Pyongyang.
All interviewees were from northern provinces (e.g., Musan, Hyesan,
Chongjin, and Onsung) near the Chinese border.
In a letter to Lower Dir journalists from China on Wednesday, several students hailing from different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who are enrolled in Tianjin
Chongjin University, China, under the chief minister's Chinese language scholarship programme, complained that they faced financial crisis as they were not being paid their stipend.
It is based on interviews with refugees from
Chongjin, an industrial city in the north of the country.
Kim Yeong-ho, who is from North Korea's third-largest city
Chongjin, said people there "can virtually skate" only in a natural environment such as on frozen lakes and reservoirs.