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Kim Jong Un’s party orders chief secretaries to take charge of party school study

North Korea has ordered its top provincial, city and county party officials to personally lead party school study in 2026. The move tightens Kim Jong Un’s grip on how...

Badminton boom takes off among North Korean high school students

A badminton boom is sweeping North Korean high schools in 2026, as Musan county...

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...

Experts are guiding the U.S. to the wrong policy on North Korea: we must not accept Kim’s nuclear-weapon-program

Distinguished North Korea experts Jeffrey Lewis, in 2022, followed by John Delury, in 2024, published articles of the same tone in the New York...

Changchun police to update personal information of N. Korean defectors living with Chinese men

The police in Changchun, the capital of China’s Jilin Province, have announced plans to update the personal information of female North Korean defectors who...

High-resolution satellite imagery confirms demolition of Arch of Reunification

Recent imagery from the Maxar WorldView-3 satellite confirmed that the Monument to the Three-Point Charter for National Reunification — a symbol of Kim Il...

Many high school graduates in N. Korea face barriers to getting higher education

Some recent graduates of North Korean high schools in Sinuiju are frustrated because they have no money to get into institutes of higher education,...

Forced repatriations of N. Korean defectors in China continue into this year

Small-scale forced repatriations of North Korean defectors have taken place even after about 200 detectors who were locked up in Chinese prisons were sent...

N. Korea’s central government sends down revised agricultural guidance to Chagang Province

The North Korean Cabinet’s Agricultural Commission recently sent amended seasonal agricultural guidance materials to Chagang Province, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity,...

Why was the term “Day of the Sun” barely used on Kim Il Sung’s birthday?

North Korean media this year hardly used the term “Day of the Sun,” the name for the holiday marking the birthday of the country’s...

Four N. Korean stationmasters arrested for failing to show loyalty to Kim Jong Un

The North Korean Ministry of State Security has recently informed senior officials at provincial bureaus about the punishment given to people arrested in connection...

N. Korea’s youth pretend to be loyal to the state to get the jobs they want

North Korea’s “new generation” includes everyone from unmarried young people to infants. North Korea defines this new generation as the “driving force that must...

N. Korea encourages Chinese businesspeople to resume commercial activities

The North Korean government is encouraging Chinese businesspeople to resume business activities they were forced to suspend when North Korea closed its borders because...

Abuse of opium remains a problem in N. Korea amid economic downturn

Several opium addicts have died recently in Kilju County, North Hamgyong Province, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Daily NK source...

Repatriated N. Korean defectors who interacted with Christians sent to political prison camps

Some of the more than 200 defectors repatriated from China to North Korea last year are being held in political prison camps. Among the...

N. Korea’s Chongjin Department Store comes under probe for corruption

The Chongjin Department Store in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, has been the subject of an investigation by the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party...

Samsu Power Plant employee punished due to his son’s troublemaking

A North Korean manager at the Samsu Power Plant in Yanggang Province has been punished in connection with his son’s transgressions, Daily NK has...

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