North Korea has formalized a system requiring institutions, enterprises, and ordinary citizens to financially support state education through a newly obtained law, shifting the cost of educational development away...
North Koreans living near the front lines were overjoyed after the regime removed propaganda loudspeakers aimed at South Korea. A source in North Hwanghae...
North Korea promotes its free healthcare system as proof of socialism’s superiority, but North Koreans say what they actually experience isn’t “free healthcare” but...
North Korea’s Ministry of Education recently conducted a nationwide review that exposed widespread problems at technical high schools, with most struggling to provide proper...
State security agents arrested a North Korean remittance broker in Hyesan while trying to deliver funds to a defector’s family in South Hamgyong province,...
A sweeping Chinese crackdown on cigarette smuggling has brought North Korean companies’ lucrative tobacco operations to a virtual standstill, forcing them to scramble for...
Chinese police continue to keep a close eye on North Korean defectors in the country. While surveillance intensity varies by region, defectors in cities...
North Korean schools may be closed for summer, but teachers are busier than ever with training programs and public service projects. “Teachers in Haeju...
Managers at trading companies in Sariwon, North Hwanghae province, recently attended a special lecture on the global economic situation. According to a Daily NK...
North Korean state security officials recently examined email usage, intranet access and file viewing records at government agencies and schools in North Pyongan province....
Songdowon International Children’s Camp supposedly provides mental and physical training to children and teenagers while promoting their welfare, but critics say it’s becoming a...
