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Help send journalists to the China-NK border region - and tell us what you want them to investigate

North Korea Borderlands Reporting Project

Help send journalists to the China-NK border region - and tell us what you want them to investigate
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Chad NK News
Chad NK News
462 backers pledged $26,631 to help bring this project to life.
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Your Ebook: A full collection of our border coverage

Dear Backers,

Thanks to your support last year we were able to successfully send two reporters to the North Korea borderlands for extended periods, as well as fund a range... Read more

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Project accounting: how money has been spent so far

Dear backers, 

In the interests of transparency – and following a suggestion in this regard from one reader – I'm posting an account of how the Kickstarter funds have been... Read more

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Update on the borderlands reporting project

Dear Backers,

I wanted to post a quick update about our reporting project from the China - DPRK borderlands, as some people have been expressing concern at the lack of... Read more

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Promises, pitfalls on the North Korea-China border

A Kickstarter column from the borderlands, near Yanji, by Peter Ward

Sino-Korean relations are very important to us, to the North Koreans, even to the Chinese. As any reader of... Read more

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Over the border: What Dandong means to N. Korea

Dear backers, ahead of our coverage resulting from this project, I thought I'd share a new piece by Dr. Andrei Lankov with you.

Thanks,

Chad

Over the border: What Dandong... Read more

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Difficulties of this assignment...

Dear Backers,

Thanks for your ongoing patience on this project. By now everyone should have received every award they requested: signed photos, books, tshirts, etc. If you didn't, just email... Read more

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Ebooks published!

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For backers only

Mugged off...!

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From Brooklyn to your house... this week!

Thanks for your ongoing patience!

We're pleased to announce that shipping of t-shirts and coffee mugs, all made at a factory in Brooklyn, NY, will take place from Washington DC,... Read more

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Tshirts and mugs ready

We just picked up the tshirts, coffee cups coming early next week. Shipping from Wednesday next week onwards!

Thanks for your patience. Quality is very good, so wait was worth... Read more

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A trip to the North Korea-China border, in photos

To get your appetite whetted for what's coming:

A trip to the North Korea-China border, in photos

Camera-hating N. Korean guards watch as China enjoys the trappings of modernity

http://www.nknews.org/2015/05/a-trip-to-the-north-korea-china-border-in-photos/... Read more

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Successfully raised $26,631 with 462 backers

We did it! Thanks to all your generous support!

Dear Kickstarter Backers,

Thanks to your very generous support it appears that this morning we'll have reached both our Kickstarter goals! 

Within just two weeks of starting we raised the... Read more

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Thanks for all your amazing support: goal nearly reached!

Thanks to your amazing support we've nearly funded the entire borderlands reporting project -- within just fifteen days!

We're really grateful of this vote of support in our work and... Read more

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$10k raised: thanks for all your support!

Dear backers,

Thanks to your generous support we're already at the $10K level, meaning there is only about 40% of the funding-drive to go.

We really appreciate your assistance!

To... Read more

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Thanks all for your help so far!

Really appreciate all of the pledges to help us on this project so far.

Today we added a new reward, two ebooks. One on daily life in North Korea and... Read more

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Project launched