Raw material supply bases supporting North Korea’s local factory construction drive are struggling with chronic labor shortages, forcing the regime to mobilize members of the Korean Socialist Women’s Union...
While North Korea-China trade has been surging since the second half of 2025, North Korean trading officials operating overseas have, if anything, less latitude...
As North Korea’s grip on society tightens by the day, the front-line police officers charged with preserving the regime in their public interactions face...
As North Korea endures an arctic blast that has lasted since New Year’s, bursting pipes have disrupted the water supply in Ryanggang province.
“With the...
North Korea’s Ponghak Beer, the beer of choice among North Korea’s elite, has appeared in the Chinese market.
Alongside Taedonggang Beer, which was already widely...
Hwasonggak, a major restaurant in the Hwasong district of Pyongyang, was subject to a year-end evaluation and ideological struggle session as part of a...
North Korean authorities have launched another so-called mopping-up operation—a sweeping crackdown—on users of Chinese mobile phones, focusing on regions along the Chinese border. North...
The public catering management office in Kaechon, South Pyongan province, has begun replacing many vendors at soft drink stalls. Officially, this is part of...
After North Korea recently suspended under-the-table trade it had been organizing in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, prices of imported goods have been surging.
“The state-sponsored smuggling...
The institutionalization of United States-Japan-Republic of Korea (ROK) cooperation since 2023 marks a qualitative shift in Northeast Asia’s security environment. The Camp David Summit...
With North Korea’s university application season set to begin in earnest from mid-January, students and parents are increasingly unhappy that family financial status decides...
