A few years ago, two researchers – Dr. Andrew Yeo (Brookings Institution) and Dr. Justin Hastings (University of Sydney) – conducted a series of interviews with North Korean defectors...
North Korea’s government issued a strategic directive in late March ordering its foreign affairs and military officials to abandon denuclearization as a negotiating framework...
North Korea has been discharging soldiers early from active military service and sending them to Russia as overseas laborers, Daily NK has learned. Families...
State-led smuggling operations along the Hyesan border in Ryanggang province have been suspended again, just weeks after resuming, triggering growing frustration among smugglers and...
Despite publicly championing “self-reliance,” North Korea has been quietly courting Chinese investment in its fishing and aquaculture sectors, dispatching officials to China’s border regions...
North Korea has launched an unprecedented inspection campaign targeting party documents submitted by local Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) organizations following the Ninth Party...
North Korea’s grave removal campaign has drained one of the country’s last traditional holidays of meaning, as North Koreans across North Pyongan province marked...
North Korea’s electricity shortage has become so severe that a state-run campaign urging people to conserve power is drawing open ridicule from the very...
North Koreans living in China without legal status are growing increasingly anxious as signs emerge of a broader thaw in relations between Pyongyang and...
North Korea’s Korean People’s Army General Political Bureau (GPB), the military’s primary organ for political indoctrination, ordered a series of special lectures across the...
North Korean parents in Chongjin are being forced to cover meals, snacks and cigarettes for laborers mobilized to renovate school facilities. The costs fall...
North Korea’s youth weddings are getting smaller, cheaper, and in some cases, nearly invisible. Newlyweds across the country are increasingly skipping one of the...
North Korea appears to be easing mobile phone restrictions on Chinese nationals entering the country for business, a move observers inside the country are...
