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FM Lin leads trade delegation to Phoenix

Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung and a business delegation from Taiwan’s National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (NiEA) visited Phoenix, Arizona Oct. 3-5 to expand bilateral trade cooperation.   According to...

China’s bold and audacious strategic initiative that escaped most experts’ attention

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to South Korea on August 19-20, 2026, received...

Taiwan, Australia discuss circular economy

Lai Ying-ying, director general of the Ministry of Environment Resource Circulation Administration (RECA), led...

Taiwan, US stage first GCTF event in New Zealand

A workshop on disaster management in the Pacific was organized by Taiwan and the...

North Korean military officer executed for stealing reserve grain

A North Korean military officer arrested for embezzling state reserve grain meant for the armed forces was recently executed in public. A Daily NK source...

Residency ID rumors spark hope for North Korean defectors in China

Rumors that China may soon issue permanent residency ID cards to North Korean defectors are spreading rapidly across the country’s northeast. The rumors have...

North Korean students resent piri in Kim Jong Un’s gift instruments

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave musical instruments to a lower secondary school in Ryanggang province last year. Now the school has assigned...

N. Korea shifts school repair bills from parents to factories

Attendance is improving at schools in Kimchaek city, North Hamgyong province. Authorities there have eased a longstanding practice that forced students and parents to...

New bridge stirs a housing boom in North Korea’s Sinuiju

Apartment prices in Sinuiju, a North Korean border city, have been climbing steadily since the COVID-19 pandemic. A source in North Pyongan province told...

A teen’s vow to catch leeches moves North Koreans to tears

A high school sophomore in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, recently finished mandatory military training. The training is run by the Red Youth Guard, a paramilitary...

North Korea targets university students in media crackdown

North Korea’s state youth organization has ordered a special crackdown on banned foreign media. It has named university students as the “primary target,” a...

Wealthy North Korean youth hide old players to dodge crackdowns

Young North Koreans from wealthy families are deliberately buying old, worn-out video players instead of newer models. They can easily afford better devices. Instead,...

North Koreans flock to abandoned coal mines to beat the heat

North Koreans sweltering through a nationwide heat wave are flocking to an unlikely refuge: abandoned coal mine shafts. A source in South Pyongan province...

Purged military official’s graft case sparks outrage among North Koreans

North Korean people are calling for a sweeping investigation into corruption across the country’s power organs. A senior military official’s dramatic public downfall sparked...

Guilt over watching K-drama leads to arrest in Pyongsong

North Korean authorities arrested two young men in Pyongsong, South Pyongan province, in 2026. Their crime was watching K-drama, the South Korean dramas widely...

In China, North Koreans hear they’re the poor ones

North Korean authorities boast of the country’s rising international standing. But in 2026, a very different story is spreading among North Korean people in...

Guilt-ridden friend turns in North Korean youths over K-drama

Police in Pyongsong city, South Pyongan province, arrested two young North Korean men in June 2026. A friend who had watched banned South Korean...

Missing relative sinks North Korean official’s shot at working in Russia

A North Korean trade official spent months preparing for a work assignment in Russia. Then, this month, he was disqualified at the final stage...

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