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FM Lin leads trade delegation to Phoenix

Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung and a business delegation from Taiwan’s National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association (NiEA) visited Phoenix, Arizona Oct. 3-5 to expand bilateral trade cooperation.   According to...

China’s bold and audacious strategic initiative that escaped most experts’ attention

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to South Korea on August 19-20, 2026, received...

Taiwan, Australia discuss circular economy

Lai Ying-ying, director general of the Ministry of Environment Resource Circulation Administration (RECA), led...

Taiwan, US stage first GCTF event in New Zealand

A workshop on disaster management in the Pacific was organized by Taiwan and the...

High school students in North Korea rack up bank debt via mobile phones, alarming parents

North Korean high school students are taking out bank loans through their mobile phones without their parents’ knowledge, spending the money on smartphone games...

Satellite analysis reveals Kim Jong Un’s hidden armored train stations

Kim Jong Un does not travel like other heads of state. He moves through North Korea aboard a “rolling fortress” — an armored train...

Solar power touted as fix for North Korea’s electricity crisis, but few can afford it

North Korean authorities are actively encouraging state institutions, enterprises, and neighborhood watch units to generate their own electricity through solar power as the country’s...

North Korea mobilizes factory workers for flood prevention push as rainy season approaches

North Korea is rushing to survey and reinforce flood-prone areas ahead of the summer rainy season, mobilizing factory and enterprise workers for large-scale repair...

Pyongyang’s postwar problem: What happens to North Korea when Russia no longer needs it?

Geopolitical dynamics are shifting rapidly as major powers intensify diplomatic coordination over the future shape of the international order. During the Victory Day parade...

North Korean soldiers in Ukraine face forced return — a civilian delegation went to fight for them

The sky over Kyiv hung heavy and gray during the days I spent in Ukraine’s capital. Standing before the outer wall of a prisoner...

North Korea’s donju hand over rice and cash to the state — and call it insurance

North Korean authorities are pressuring wealthy private traders known as donju — loosely translated as “masters of money,” referring to a class of entrepreneurs...

Mass livestock deaths at Kim Jong Un’s model farm trigger political crisis in Kangwon province

Hundreds of pigs, goats, and rabbits have died at a state breeding farm in North Korea’s Sepho district, and authorities have dispatched a high-level...

North Korea makes parents pay to feed students forced into rice planting labor

Parents across North Korea are being pressured to supply food for their children mobilized for rice planting season, bearing costs the state is unwilling...

Young North Koreans turn to flexible 8·3 labor as state wages fail to cover basic needs

Young workers in North Korea are increasingly using a practice known as “8·3 labor” — paying a fee to their state-assigned workplace in exchange...

North Korea uses Russia’s Victory Day to push war readiness doctrine

North Korea used its military’s participation in Russia’s Victory Day parade to conduct ideological indoctrination sessions targeting security officials, in what reflects Pyongyang’s effort...

North Korea grain prices fall across markets as imported supply increases

Grain prices at North Korean markets fell across the board in late May 2026, reversing a sustained period of increases, according to Daily NK’s...

North Korean women no longer want to marry police officers. Here’s why.

A telling story has been circulating in South Pyongan province. A daughter of a local People’s Committee official was urged by her parents to...

Counterfeit Russian rubles flood Rason market as North Korea-Russia trade expands

Counterfeit Russian rubles have been circulating in Rason, North Korea’s special economic zone on the China-Russia border, prompting authorities to dispatch a special inspection...

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