North Korea’s Cabinet Ministry of Education has ordered major universities in Pyongyang to stamp out the ghostwriting of graduation theses, sparking anxiety among soon-to-graduate...
Demand for South Korean cosmetics among North Korea’s wealthy elite shows no sign of slowing, and smugglers have begun repackaging the products into Chinese...
North Korea is overhauling its foreign trade system to route transactions only through official state trade organizations this year. Authorities have banned individual traders...
North Korean authorities have ordered intensive inspections at universities nationwide, including in Pyongyang, after seven students at Kim Chaek University of Technology were arrested.
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Private money-transfer brokers are reviving in North Korea after a period of suppression aimed at pushing people toward banks. The distrust toward banks that...
North Korean authorities recently discharged a military officer stationed in Hamhung after discovering that his wife has a relative in China who is an...
North Korea’s State Hydro-Meteorological Administration is undergoing a sweeping, party-ordered ideological review this month after a string of forecasting failures worsened storm and heat...
Recently, South Korea-US relations have taken a troubling turn. After North Korea’s military pushed ahead with fortification work along the Military Demarcation Line, including...
Growing garment subcontracting trade between North Korea and China is pulling young women into export garment factories in cities including Sinuiju, Nampo and Pyongyang...
A hospital in Chongjin, the capital of North Korea’s North Hamgyong province, cremated a patient’s body without the family’s consent this month, after power...
Rice prices in North Korea climbed to their highest level since the country’s 2009 currency redenomination in mid-August 2026, according to Daily NK’s latest...
