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Fight breaks out at North Hamgyong farm over access to non-arable plots

Desperate to supplement their income, North Korean farm workers in North Hamgyong province are coming to blows over access to non-arable plots of land...

Trapped in the net: North Korean workers in Chinese seafood factories

Daily NK has released a comprehensive report examining how North Korean workers dispatched to Chinese seafood processing factories are subjected to systematic forced labor,...

North Korea unveils next-stage public health goals at party congress

North Korea’s health ministry used the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea earlier this month to announce an ambitious new phase in...

North Korea fuel prices spike 25% amid Iran war before stabilizing

Fuel prices in North Korea spiked by as much as 25% in early March following the outbreak of war involving Iran, before partially stabilizing...

Kim Yo Jong named WPK General Affairs Department head: promotion or demotion?

North Korea’s state media disclosed last week that Kim Jong Un’s younger sister has been appointed head of the General Affairs Department of the...

North Korea’s wealthy youth buy cars they can’t drive, hire drivers to profit

Young North Koreans with wealthy parents are buying vehicles they cannot drive and hiring drivers to run them as taxis or freight haulers, turning...

Taiwan, Eswatini, US co-host GCTF seminar on digital entrepreneurship

The governments of Eswatini, Taiwan and the U.S. collaborated to host a workshop through the Global Cooperation and Training Framework called “Digital Entrepreneurship for...

Deputy FM Wu hosts event for Taiwan-UK Semiconductor Joint Skills Project

Deputy Foreign Minister François Chih-chung Wu hosted a tea reception for the Taiwan-U.K. Semiconductor Joint Skills Project participants March 13 in Taipei City, welcoming...

President Lai addresses Yushan Forum

President Lai Ching-te said March 16 that Taiwan is committed to leveraging the combined advantages of democracy, economics, and technology with like-minded partners to...

President Lai receives Japanese Diet Member Furuya

President Lai Ching-te received Keiji Furuya, chair of the Japan-ROC Diet Members’ Consultative Council, at the Presidential Office March 16 in Taipei City and...

North Korea cracks down on rumors about soldiers captured in Ukraine

North Korean authorities have ordered state security agents to identify and suppress rumors spreading along the Chinese border about soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces,...

Border soldiers forced to replant trees doomed to die

North Korean soldiers guarding the border with China have been mobilized to plant trees ahead of Arbor Day on March 14, but many are...

North Korean parents push back on tailored school uniform policy

North Korean authorities are conducting daily inspections of school uniform production and distribution ahead of the 2026 academic year beginning in April, but a...

North Korea’s poorest youth are choosing brutal labor brigades over life at home

Young North Koreans facing poverty and an unrelenting burden of workplace levies are volunteering for the country’s much-dreaded labor brigades in growing numbers, choosing...

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