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 shortages across the country. A...
North Korean state security agencies have detained dozens of people for watching videos of South Korean singer Cho Yong-pil’s wildly popular “This Moment Forever”...
The release of interviews with North Korean soldiers captured as prisoners of war on the Ukrainian battlefield is causing shockwaves. I found the testimonies...
The North Korean Cabinet’s first order of 2026 focused on “producing results” to make the Ninth Party Congress shine as a “victor’s congress,” Daily...
Cases of water pipes freezing or exploding have occurred throughout the northern regions of North Korea amid a protracted cold spell. Locals are taking...
Chinese smugglers caught trafficking North Korean cigarettes face steep penalties and prison time as Beijing intensifies enforcement against illicit tobacco trade, but Pyongyang’s cigarette...
Young North Koreans are shelling out $345 to copy a look that signals power: “gaeteol-shuba,” the dog-fur padded coats worn by soldiers, state security...
North Korean neighborhood watch unit leaders have given households their yearly quotas for various scrap materials they are supposed to collect for the government.
Families...
Prices at North Korea’s informal marketplaces are falling across the board, including imported goods and grains like rice and corn. This appears to be...
