Apartment prices in one of Pyongyang’s newer housing districts have fallen from about $70,000 to roughly $60,000, and sales have slowed sharply, as a...
Bribes for the travel certificates North Koreans need to move between regions have jumped sharply in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong province, and the government’s own...
Four unemployed young men in Sinuiju, North Pyongan province, were sentenced to labor training after North Korean authorities caught them watching South Korean and...
Satellite imagery shows yellow-tinted mine drainage spreading from North Korea’s Bupo mine toward farmland and a saltworks in South Hwanghae province’s Kangnyong county, with...
North Korea’s Cabinet Ministry of Education has ordered major universities in Pyongyang to stamp out the ghostwriting of graduation theses, sparking anxiety among soon-to-graduate...
Demand for South Korean cosmetics among North Korea’s wealthy elite shows no sign of slowing, and smugglers have begun repackaging the products into Chinese...
North Korea is overhauling its foreign trade system to route transactions only through official state trade organizations this year. Authorities have banned individual traders...
North Korean authorities have ordered intensive inspections at universities nationwide, including in Pyongyang, after seven students at Kim Chaek University of Technology were arrested.
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Private money-transfer brokers are reviving in North Korea after a period of suppression aimed at pushing people toward banks. The distrust toward banks that...
North Korean authorities recently discharged a military officer stationed in Hamhung after discovering that his wife has a relative in China who is an...
