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North Korea’s largest power plant forces workers to pay for mandatory loyalty tours

Workers at North Korea’s largest power plant are fuming after being ordered on mandatory ideological tours for Party Foundation Day in 2026. The catch is that they have to...

North Korean workers sent to Russia with no say and no destination

North Korea is sending more workers to Russia in 2026, but many recruits leave...

MOEA stages US Business Day in Taipei

The U.S. Business Day 2026 took place Oct. 13 in Taipei City to assist...

Hyesan lectures pit free socialist housing against capitalist bank loans

Propaganda lectures in the North Korean border city of Hyesan are casting South Korean...

Was Ipo Village really ground zero for N. Korea’s COVID outbreak?

In early June 2022, a man surnamed Choe, the chief of the military medical department of the Second Division of the First Corps –...

N. Korean rice prices dip in run-up to Lunar New Year

Rice prices at North Korean markets have fallen to some degree in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holiday. The market price of...

Two N. Korean defectors in China arrested for talking about going to S. Korea

Two North Korean defectors who talked to each other about going to South Korea were recently arrested by the Chinese police in Hebei Province,...

Bicycle theft ring leader to get light punishment due to connections

The leader of a gang of bicycle thieves recently arrested by the police in North Hamgyong Province will likely receive a slap on the...

The tragic story of a North Korean “defector hunter”

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Korean in November 2021.  In early November 2012, North Korea’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) made it...

N. Korean military units ordered to modernize record-keeping system for training

North Korea’s military leadership recently ordered all units to modernize their combat training record-keeping system by making records daily instead of monthly and placing...

Behind the idyllic lives of North Korea’s nuclear weapons researchers

After announcing plans to upgrade North Korea’s nuclear arsenal at the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea in early 2021, Kim Jong...

Kangwon Province’s plan to improve quality of consumer goods comes under fire

At a year-end party meeting, North Korea’s provinces were ordered to improve the quality of consumer goods and basic foodstuffs as their first task...

North Korea issues “baffling” order to weapons factories

After recently ordering weapons factories to expand weapons production, North Korean authorities have now issued a somewhat puzzling order for factories to abandon slower...

Hyesan police launch manhunt for thief

Hyesan police recently launched a manhunt for a man in his twenties who escaped while being investigated for theft, Daily NK has learned. After the...

Kaesong dialect targeted in N. Korea’s drive to eliminate non-standard speech

As the North Korean government seeks to tighten ideological control over the “next generation” of children and young people this year, it is taking...

N. Korea cuts re-education camp sentences to reduce death count

A change in re-education camp regulations last year was aimed at reducing the number of deaths in the camps by returning inmates to society...

N. Korea’s bizarre propaganda slogan: “Love the future”

There was a time when it was possible to take pictures of North Korea by crossing the Yalu and Tumen rivers. After the border...

N. Pyongan Province ordered to establish joint ventures with foreign entities

The committee tasked with promoting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s “20×10 regional development policy” recently issued its first order, calling on North Pyongan...

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