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Deputy FM joins St. Lucia culture day celebration

Deputy Foreign Minister François Chih-chung Wu attended a Creole Day event hosted by the Embassy of Saint Lucia in the Republic of China (Taiwan), Oct. 25 in Taipei City.   The...

Foreign Minister Lin addresses Formosa Club meeting in Taiwan

The Formosa Club is holding its annual conference from Oct. 24 to Oct. 28...

North Korean teen defies mother to join army

A widowed mother in Tanchon, South Hamgyong province, has begged her son’s school to...

North Korea screens young single women for factory jobs in China

North Korea has begun final screening of unmarried female workers in their 20s bound...

North Korean teen defies mother to join army

A widowed mother in Tanchon, South Hamgyong province, has begged her son’s school to keep him off North Korea’s 2026 conscription rolls. The teenager,...

North Korea screens young single women for factory jobs in China

North Korea has begun final screening of unmarried female workers in their 20s bound for jobs in China, and they could start work at...

Smuggling ban drives North Korean units to cheap Chinese work

North Korea’s foreign currency-earning units are scrambling for low-paying contract manufacturing work from China in October 2026. A prolonged crackdown on cross-border smuggling has...

Satellite imagery maps 23 towers at North Korea’s Voice of Korea transmitter site

Satellite imagery of a shortwave radio transmitter site in Hyangsan county, Jagang province, shows 23 large steel towers spread across four zones. The towers...

Why is North Korea opening bulgogi restaurants when meat is so scarce?

North Korea has opened a string of state-run bulgogi restaurants across the country since September 2026. The glossy venues offer a striking display of...

North Korea uses DMZ landmine blast to step up student military drills

North Korean authorities are using last month’s DMZ landmine explosion to justify tougher military drills for high school students. In anti-South Korea lectures, officials...

Secret abortion pills leave Kaechon schoolgirl bleeding in the street

A teenage girl in Kaechon, South Pyongan province, collapsed in the street in early October 2026 after taking abortion pills. She had secretly bought...

North Koreans dodge style patrols as constitution enshrines the socialist lifestyle

North Koreans are finding quiet ways around the socialist lifestyle crackdown in 2026, even after Kim Jong Un’s government wrote the campaign into the...

New Yalu River Bridge opens, but customs delays leave trucks waiting for hours

The New Yalu River Bridge between China and North Korea opened on Oct. 15, 2026, after 12 years of delays. Slow customs clearance on...

North Korean traders turn to Chinese mixer trucks and pump trucks

North Korean trade workers are seeking concrete mixer trucks and pump trucks from China in 2026, broadening demand for heavy construction equipment. Trade workers...

Signs point to Kim Jong Un preparing for a Trump-Kim summit

As talk of a possible Trump-Kim summit grows in 2026, shifts in North Korea’s domestic political events suggest Kim Jong Un is quietly preparing...

Chongjin railway official expelled after bribing his way into party school

North Korea has expelled a Chongjin railway official from the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea in an October 2026 party school bribery case. The...

North Korean mothers sent to China struggle with years apart from their children

Married women in their mid-40s make up a growing share of the North Korean workers sent to China in 2026. Many of them left...

Farm workers balk as Pyongyang pushes electronic payment cards

North Korean authorities are pressing South Pyongan province farm workers to load their savings onto electronic payment cards, saying the cashless shift will prevent...

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