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Badminton boom takes off among North Korean high school students

A badminton boom is sweeping North Korean high schools in 2026, as Musan county teenagers turn parks into free courts. Rackets and shuttlecocks once cost too much for most...

North Korean vessels cash in on drug runs between Southeast Asia and China

North Korean ships are earning large sums of foreign currency through drug smuggling between...

Thermal satellite images show Yongbyon reactors running nonstop

North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear complex kept its key reactors and processing plants running through...

Economic, technological consultations conclude in Prague

Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Cynthia Kiang and David Müller, her counterpart from the...

N. Korean military set to hold large number of drills, inspections until June 30

The North Korean military’s General Staff Department is holding a large number of tactical drills and inspections from June 10 to 30, Daily NK...

N. Korea’s mass organizations lecture members about threats from abroad

North Korean social organizations, including the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, the Socialist Women’s Union of Korea and the Socialist Patriotic Youth...

N. Korean prison camp guard beats up inmate old enough to be his father

North Koreans were shocked to hear that a guidance officer at a forced labor camp in Yanggang Province recently beat up an inmate old...

Satellite imagery shows construction of new factory in N. Hamgyong Province

Satellite images show a new factory being built on a 3.3-hectare lot in Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province. Kyongsong was one of the first...

N. Korea moves to replace labor managers in Russia en masse

North Korean authorities have begun replacing managers sent to Russia to monitor and control North Korean workers in the country, Daily NK has learned....

N. Korea’s garbage-filled balloons lead to disgust among North Koreans

In late May, North Korea sent two batches of balloons filled with trash – including cigarette butts and waste paper – across the border...

Young people who helped build Pyongyang’s Jonwi Street rewarded with party membership

The North Korean authorities have rewarded the young people who helped build Pyongyang’s Jonwi Street by selecting some of them to join the Workers’...

Kaechon prison camp works its inmates to death

The North Korean authorities keep men and women serving life sentences in the Hamhung and Kaechon concentration camps in separate quarters in accordance with...

A satellite imagery analysis of the Sohae Satellite Launching Station after failed launch

North Korea hurriedly launched a so-called spy satellite in the middle of the night on May 27, but it reportedly failed when the rocket’s...

N. Korean e-payment services popular among young people

Electronic payment services such as offline payments using QR codes are becoming increasingly popular among young North Koreans in major cities, Daily NK has...

N. Hamgyong Province intensifies crackdowns on consumption, distribution of foreign content

Crackdowns and inspections targeting the consumption or distribution of foreign content, including South Korean movies and dramas, have suddenly intensified in North Hamgyong Province...

N. Korea launches preparations to transform Kaesong complex into a modern industrial park

North Korea has begun preparing large-scale construction plans to transform the Kaesong Industrial Complex into a modern industrial park as part of its regional...

N. Korea avoids using Sinuiju-Dandong trade route for exports

For strategic reasons, the North Korean government only imports goods in the Sinuiju-Dandong trade route, while using other routes to export goods to China....

N. Korea appears to be building more oil tanks at Nampo Port

Satellite images indicate that North Korea is building more oil tanks at the port of Nampo. The images also seem to show North Korean...

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