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Taiwan opens representative office in Phoenix

Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung attended the launch of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 5.   The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs...

Interview: How bribery holds North Korea’s market economy together

A few years ago, two researchers – Dr. Andrew Yeo (Brookings Institution) and Dr....

MOFA welcomes Japan’s Kumamoto Gov. Kimura

The Oct. 6 visit by Kumamoto Governor Takashi Kimura and Prefectural Assembly Chair Koki...

South Korean-style natural makeup catches on among young North Koreans

Young North Koreans in cities such as Chongjin are embracing a subtle, natural South...

North Korea orders officer unity training after party congress

North Korea’s VIII Corps held three-day training sessions for junior officers across its units in early March, ordering them to cultivate closer bonds with...

North Korea’s inns become havens for drug deals as crackdowns intensify

Inns across North Korea are being converted into hubs for drug dealing and use as intensifying state crackdowns push narcotics activity further underground, a...

Beijing-Pyongyang passenger train service set to resume after nearly six years

North Korea and China are set to resume direct passenger rail service between Beijing and Pyongyang on March 12, ending a suspension of nearly...

North Korea drafts women’s union members to plug labor gaps at raw material bases

Raw material supply bases supporting North Korea’s local factory construction drive are struggling with chronic labor shortages, forcing the regime to mobilize members of...

Pyongsong crackdown leaves shelves bare as North Korea pushes state commerce drive

North Korea’s crackdown on private markets is intensifying as the regime designates March a “month of commercial revolution,” triggering sharp price spikes and supply...

Post-congress crackdown: North Korea conducts wired broadcast inspections to enforce ideological compliance

North Korean authorities are conducting household inspections of wired broadcast equipment across multiple provinces following the conclusion of the ninth Workers’ Party of Korea...

Kim Jong Un’s 9th party congress sets a new course for North Korean agriculture

The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea’s Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), reported on Feb. 28 that participants of the Ninth Congress...

North Korean youth are skipping political events, and the regime is worried

Attendance at political events and propaganda gatherings inside North Korea has been falling, and the regime appears to be taking notice. A source in...

North Korea intensifies jangmadang crackdown, seizing household goods for state stores

North Korean authorities have sharply escalated inspections of jangmadang markets in Hamhung city, seizing domestically produced household goods from vendors and routing them into...

North Korea orders teachers to take malnourished orphans home as state welfare collapses

The Nampo party committee has ordered teachers at orphan care facilities to personally take malnourished and sick children into their own homes to nurse...

Kim Jong Un’s ideology supplants founding doctrine after ninth party congress

North Korea’s state media has stopped referencing “Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism,” the ideological framework underpinning the Kim dynasty for decades, following the ninth congress of the Workers’...

Kim rewards parade soldiers with special leave

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rewarded soldiers who marched in the military parade at the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea...

North Korean youth outmaneuver state labor drives by volunteering for construction brigades first

Young people in Sinuiju are volunteering for construction brigades before the state can assign them elsewhere, choosing what they see as the least harmful...

After Iran: Why a strike on North Korea’s nuclear sites is a last resort

On June 21, 2025, the United States carried out Operation Midnight Hammer, deploying B-2 stealth bombers armed with GBU-57 massive bunker busters and cruise...

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