North Korea: Squabble Leads to Murder Due to Firewood

The death of an elderly man in his 60s and the arrest of a man in his 40s involved in a fight over firewood has been reported in Hoiryeong, North Hamkyung Province.

Kim Chung Wan (67) in Wonsan-ri, Hoiryeong collected canes of corn from a freshly harvested field, and spread them out on his yard on the 21st of last month. In North Korea, corn is a key

The field from which Kim had gathered the canes of corn was a