North Korean authorities have launched a crackdown on unlicensed home restaurants in Kaechon, South Pyongan province, ordering small food vendors to register their businesses...
North Korea’s ruling party issued an urgent order to re-vet every child selected to attend celebrations in Pyongyang for the Korean Children’s Union’s 80th...
Members of North Korea’s official women’s organization are working four-hour shifts in the country’s 2026 weeding campaign, but authorities now demand written proof that...
North Korean authorities are urging state institutions, enterprises, and neighborhood watch units to install solar power systems to offset chronic electricity shortages, but the...
Chinese travel agencies began promoting North Korea tourism packages in June, capitalizing on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first visit to Pyongyang in seven years...
North Korea has intensified controls on gatherings and private conversations in border areas, ordering that groups of three or more people be broken up...
North Korean people living near gold mines in North Pyongan province have converted their homes into makeshift processing operations, crushing and washing ore to...
Fuel shortages are forcing North Korean farms to abandon mechanized equipment during the critical rice transplanting season, with workers left to haul seedlings by...
More than five years after North Korea’s state-run grain stores were introduced, North Korean people say the outlets are operating more smoothly than in...
North Korean high school students are taking out bank loans through their mobile phones without their parents’ knowledge, spending the money on smartphone games...
