North Korea resumed rail and air links with China in late March after a roughly six-year COVID-19 suspension, marking a significant development in North...
North Korea has tightened ideological controls since the Ninth Workers’ Party of Korea Congress. Now, first-quarter Q&A-style ideological review sessions have swept across nearly...
Daily NK has released a report analyzing North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress, examining what the congress reveals about the future direction of Kim Jong...
North Korea’s government issued a strategic directive in late March ordering its foreign affairs and military officials to abandon denuclearization as a negotiating framework...
North Korea has been discharging soldiers early from active military service and sending them to Russia as overseas laborers, Daily NK has learned. Families...
State-led smuggling operations along the Hyesan border in Ryanggang province have been suspended again, just weeks after resuming, triggering growing frustration among smugglers and...
Despite publicly championing “self-reliance,” North Korea has been quietly courting Chinese investment in its fishing and aquaculture sectors, dispatching officials to China’s border regions...
North Korea has launched an unprecedented inspection campaign targeting party documents submitted by local Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) organizations following the Ninth Party...
North Korea’s grave removal campaign has drained one of the country’s last traditional holidays of meaning, as North Koreans across North Pyongan province marked...
North Korea’s electricity shortage has become so severe that a state-run campaign urging people to conserve power is drawing open ridicule from the very...
