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North Korea’s rote learning sessions pressure workers after Ninth Party Congress

North Korea has tightened ideological controls since the Ninth Workers’ Party of Korea Congress. Now, first-quarter Q&A-style ideological review sessions have swept across nearly...

North Korean students mobilized to farm school land as rations dry up

North Korean students have barely settled into the new school year before being pulled out of class to expand school farmland plots, with parents...

North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress: Key takeaways

Daily NK has released a report analyzing North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress, examining what the congress reveals about the future direction of Kim Jong...

Water crisis grips Hyesan as tap water flows just once every five days

Tap water in Hyesan, a city in North Korea’s Ryanggang province bordering China, now flows roughly once every five days, and even then reaches...

Pyongyang tells diplomats to drop denuclearization, push arms control instead

North Korea’s government issued a strategic directive in late March ordering its foreign affairs and military officials to abandon denuclearization as a negotiating framework...

North Korea discharges soldiers early to send them to Russia as laborers

North Korea has been discharging soldiers early from active military service and sending them to Russia as overseas laborers, Daily NK has learned. Families...

Hyesan border trade halted again as North Korean traders count the cost

State-led smuggling operations along the Hyesan border in Ryanggang province have been suspended again, just weeks after resuming, triggering growing frustration among smugglers and...

Taiwan deepens trade collaboration with Marshall Islands

Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung led an economic and trade delegation to the Marshall Islands, underscoring government commitment to advancing the Diplomatic Allies Prosperity Project.   Lin,...

President Lai receives US senator

President Lai Ching-te said April 8 that Taiwan is committed to working with like-minded partners to solidify democracy and safeguard peace to build a...

Premier Cho attends 2026 Touch Taiwan

Premier Cho Jung-tai attended the opening ceremony of 2026 Touch Taiwan April 8 in Taipei City and pledged to keep working with the local...

North Korea courts Chinese fishing investment while preaching self-reliance

Despite publicly championing “self-reliance,” North Korea has been quietly courting Chinese investment in its fishing and aquaculture sectors, dispatching officials to China’s border regions...

Flu outbreak overwhelms North Korean hospitals as children develop pneumonia

A flu outbreak is sweeping parts of North Korea, overwhelming hospitals and forcing parents to seek private doctors as children as young as one...

North Korea rejects 90% of local party documents in post-congress crackdown

North Korea has launched an unprecedented inspection campaign targeting party documents submitted by local Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) organizations following the Ninth Party...

North Koreans mourn a holiday emptied by grave removal campaign

North Korea’s grave removal campaign has drained one of the country’s last traditional holidays of meaning, as North Koreans across North Pyongan province marked...

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