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UK needs autonomous killer weapons – senior official

Armed Forces Under-secretary Al Carns has said Britain’s “adversaries” would not hesitate to deploy systems that kill without human approval ...

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...

Nepalese PM wants UK at border talks with India

Balen Shah insisted New Delhi and Kathmandu had encroached on each other’s territory but...

Russia boosts wheat exports to Kenya – report

Deliveries reached 1.4 million tons by late May making it one of Russia’s key...

Used car imports are fueling a booming vehicle repair industry across North Korea

A surge in used vehicle imports over the past several years has sparked a booming auto repair industry across North Korea, with dedicated repair...

North Korea’s rice price crackdown backfires as traders go underground

North Korea’s Cabinet issued an emergency order on May 12, 2026, capping rice prices in the country’s markets, but the move has driven traders...

North Korean fishers forced to surrender 80% of their catch as state tightens grip on seafood supply

Fishers operating out of Chongjin in North Hamgyong province are struggling to make ends meet during the peak squid season after the state expanded...

North Korea’s informal labor markets boom as jangmadang trade loses viability

Growing numbers of North Koreans are turning to informal day-labor markets to earn a living as tightened controls on jangmadang (the semi-official street markets...

North Korean donju convert apartments into duplexes to shelter wealth from state seizure

Wealthy entrepreneurs in North Korea are buying adjacent apartment units and converting them into private duplexes, a trend driven less by lifestyle aspiration than...

North Korea’s massive Sinuiju greenhouse farm moves to sell fresh produce in China

North Korean trading companies are actively canvassing Chinese buyers for fresh vegetables and fruit produced at the Sinuiju Comprehensive Greenhouse Farm, a massive agricultural...

North Korea’s private arts tutoring boom grows even as farm mobilization season begins

Some North Korean students in North Pyongan province are skipping compulsory farm labor duty this rice-planting season by securing enrollment in school arts performance...

Satellite data shows mixed reservoir levels ahead of North Korea’s planting season

An analysis of recent imagery captured by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2B and Sentinel-2C satellites shows that water levels at North Korea’s major reservoirs...

North Korea’s crackdown on school bribery fuels teacher backlash in North Hamgyong

North Korea’s Ministry of Education has singled out North Hamgyong province for a sweeping anti-corruption drive after the province posted some of the country’s...

North Korean freight smugglers arrested, then freed after paying massive bribes

Two young men in their 20s from Haeju city in South Hwanghae province built a lucrative illegal freight operation by smuggling goods aboard train...

North Korea mobilizes labor for rice planting even as seedlings lag behind

North Korea has ordered a mass mobilization for the rice transplanting season in North Pyongan province even as some farms in the region have...

China recruits North Korean defectors as informants to trap escape brokers

Chinese police are recruiting North Korean defectors living in China as informants and using them to infiltrate defector escape networks, leading to the arrest...

North Korea replaces all foreign student dormitory staff at Kim Il Sung University

North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) central committee ordered a full replacement of staff managing foreign student dormitories at Kim Il Sung...

North Korean street food finds market across the border in China

Ethnic Chinese residents of North Korea are carrying Chongjin-made soy meat and fried tofu across the border into China and selling them there, turning...

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