Contract manufacturing accounts for such a large share of North Korea’s official trade with China that wigs and false eyelashes are its top exports. But North Korean trading companies...
North Korea’s II Corps has ordered nutritious food for soldiers ahead of winter exercises beginning Dec. 1, but the directive has sparked complaints from...
North Korea is holding public lectures encouraging electronic payment adoption, but citizens remain hesitant due to concerns about government surveillance and policy instability. A...
North Korean trade officials operating in China are illegally selling cryptocurrency to Chinese nationals, with Pyongyang earning a fortune in foreign currency as a...
North Korea’s military is using stories of soldiers who detonated themselves in the Russia-Ukraine war as indoctrination material, telling troops “if you give your...
The number of child beggars in the North Korean border city of Hoeryong is surging, with homeless youngsters increasingly visible near train stations and...
Chanel cosmetics and perfumes are becoming the latest status symbol among North Korea’s elite, as wealthy people in cities like Hoeryong and Chongjin increasingly...
North Korea has launched a heavy-handed crackdown on private rice sales in North Hamgyong province. “After the Central Committee ordered a halt to the...
Many households in North Korea’s Ryanggang province — where winter temperatures plummet to close to 30 degrees Celsius below freezing — lack wind blockers...
North Korea has recently taken steps to expand its mineral trade despite international sanctions. According to a Daily NK source in China recently, a...
North Korea’s Kangwon province is enforcing a strict ban on market vendors setting prices for products made at local factories, causing disruptions to market...
South Korea’s Defense Intelligence Agency warned in a Nov. 5 closed-door parliamentary audit that North Korea “could carry out a nuclear test within a...
