North Korea’s market grain prices have recently surged to all-time highs after remaining relatively stable since December, increasing the financial burden on ordinary North...
Expensive spring fashions have been selling rapidly in North Korea’s major cities. While many North Koreans face food shortages with the onset of the...
Local newspaper reporters in North Korea are struggling financially despite receiving government-granted vacation rights to use hot springs. Some journalists are even borrowing money...
North Korean security agencies have begun launching sting operations using the Chinese messaging app WeChat to crack down on people using illegal Chinese-made mobile...
A critical but often overlooked aspect of North Korea analysis is the question of what it would actually take—financially and institutionally—for the DPRK to...
Thirty students accepted into the Hamhung College of Pharmacy, a prestigious state-run university in North Korea’s South Hamgyong province, declined to enroll this year....
North Korea has recently intensified television inspections in the border city of Haeju to ensure locals are keeping their channels locked and avoiding South...
North Korea is boasting about exceptional output from new factories built as part of its 20×10 regional development policy. However, ordinary North Koreans see...
The number of “food-poor families” has recently grown as North Korea’s spring hunger season intensifies, worsening the already severe seasonal food shortages.
“The number of...
The won-to-dollar market exchange rate in North Korea has more than doubled over the past year, prompting the government to ban private foreign currency...
North Korean officials in Nampo are forcing unmarried women over 28 into arranged marriages, declaring that remaining single is a “non-socialist act” that shirks...
As North Korean schools prepare for the new academic year starting April 1, parents are frustrated by school decoration fees their children are expected...
Two North Korean doctors faced a public struggle session after being caught selling medicine supplied to their hospital.
“Two doctors at the Third Prevention Hospital...
