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After someone snuck in from China, North Korea locks down Hyesan for a month
The person who snuck into the city was not just an illegal border crosser, but someone who had once lived in South Korea, a source told Daily NK
2021.03.04 2:00pm
North Korea completely locked down Hyesan, a city in Yanggang Province, from 6 PM yesterday, Daily NK has learned. A source in the province told Daily NK that the lockdown was implemented soon after it was discovered someone had snuck into the city from China.
“At 3:30 PM today district
inminban, government agencies, and other organizations were told by the authorities that all movement was to be restricted from 6 PM and that everyone should go home because a one-month-long lockdown is going to be implemented,” a source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK yesterday, using a term describing North Korea’s lowest administrative unit.