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As more North Koreans seek jobs at food processing plants, where food rations and wages are guaranteed, the cost of bribes for those jobs...

Police in parts of China’s Hebei Province are issuing temporary residency permits to defectors who have lived in China for a decade or more,...

Satellite imagery suggests that a drainage ditch is being built at a settling basin at the Pyongsan Uranium Concentrate Plant. High-resolution images recently taken...

A dancer of the Ministry of Social Security Ensemble recently took her own life, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Daily...

Police officers in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, underwent about two weeks of bunker drills in preparation for war earlier this month, Daily NK has...

A growing number of Chinese companies are seeking cheap North Korean labor due to the recent rise in labor costs in China. In response,...

As the world lived in fear of COVID-19 in the year 2020, a North Korean (identified here as “A”) managed to escape from a...

Residents of North Korea’s South Hwanghae Province are eager to catch leeches and earthworms to make money, Daily NK has learned. “People in Haeju and...

Accidents at North Korea’s coal mines are on the rise due to power shortages, but restaurants and nightclubs frequented by the country’s elite can...

Amid the travails of a chronic food shortage, North Korea has identified increasing grain production as its top economic priority for the year and...

A police officer in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, was arrested in late April for the murder of his wife, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on...

Women who defected from North Korea are fleeing their homes in rural Chinese villages in search of new lives, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on...

Researchers at the Academy of National Defense Science, a critical agency in North Korea’s accelerating satellite and weapons development efforts, are increasingly unhappy with...

North Korea’s exports of artificial hair products, including wigs and false eyelashes, are setting new records, but North Koreans prefer to work with electronics...