North Korea: the new generation losing faith in the regime

After decades of absolute control, Pyongyang's iron grip on the lives of ordinary citizens is finally slipping. Tania Branigan meets the people who no longer believe the propaganda

Inside North Korea – in pictures-Tania Branigan in Yanji- Tuesday 22 April 2014

North Koreans in Yanji in northern China are more free to talk about the situation back home – but still fear for their families if their faces are shown.

If she is lucky - if her husband or children can slip away unnoticed to the riverside, nearer the Chinese phone masts - Chae Un-ee can talk to her family each day. “Talk” is perhaps an exaggeration; her loved ones end the call, made on a smuggled handset and SIM card, almost as soon as it begins.

North Korea the New Generation Losing Faith in the Regime by nelvely