The party committee of Songchon county, South Pyongan province, has ordered a complete halt to the flow of state-produced goods into informal markets, threatening officials and factory workers with...
After North Korea recently suspended under-the-table trade it had been organizing in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, prices of imported goods have been surging.
“The state-sponsored smuggling...
The institutionalization of United States-Japan-Republic of Korea (ROK) cooperation since 2023 marks a qualitative shift in Northeast Asia’s security environment. The Camp David Summit...
With North Korea’s university application season set to begin in earnest from mid-January, students and parents are increasingly unhappy that family financial status decides...
Several military couriers tasked with carrying classified documents received dishonorable discharges when an intensive inspection of train use at the end of last year...
North Korean authorities have begun criticizing enterprises’ customary practice of aekbeori—allowing workers to skip workplace attendance to pursue private commercial activities in return for...
North Korea has launched a harsh crackdown on the recent boom in private tutoring. The official reason: tutoring is “non-socialist behavior.” But parents have...
President Lee Jae-myung’s recent visit to Beijing, the first by a South Korean leader since 2019, marks a tentative reset in China–South Korea relations...
North Korean workers were frustrated with the speech national leader Kim Jong Un delivered in Pyongyang on New Year’s Day. The speech was distributed...
Major markets throughout North Korea have bustled with activity since New Year’s Day. Even in struggling agricultural villages, more consumers are visiting markets stocked...
