North Korean people expressed confusion and alarm this week following Kim Jong Un’s announcement of plans to establish a police system, with many questioning how such a move squares...
North Korea-China passenger train service resumed last week for the first time in more than six years, raising hopes among Chinese travel operators of...
State-sanctioned smuggling along the border in Hyesan, Ryanggang province has resumed after a roughly three-month suspension, bringing relief to traders whose goods had been...
North Koreans expressed frustration this week over a series of missile test launches carried out amid soaring food prices, with many people saying the...
North Korea began building and publicly unveiling its 5,000-ton destroyers starting in 2025. Recent satellite imagery suggests the vessels are not yet fully operational...
Well-off North Korean women are taking a greater interest in their physical appearance. There are generational differences in this beauty trend, with young women...
North Korea’s contract manufacturing sector, known as imga-gong (processing-on-commission work), is showing tentative signs of recovery in 2026 after years of near-total collapse following...
North Korea is pushing a sweeping housing construction drive across the country under the banner of “regional development,” and central party officials traveled to...
North Korean schools in South Pyongan province are pressing parents to fund building repairs and purchase educational materials during March, which authorities have dubbed...
North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly convenes March 22 to elect state leadership and revise the constitution. With Kim Jong Un freshly re-elected as Workers’...
