North Korea has ordered a sweeping ideological campaign to erase South Korea from the minds of young people, directing youth organizations to conduct weekly sessions aimed at purging South...
North Korea is celebrating the nationwide supply of school uniforms as one of its crowning socialist achievements, but factory workers tasked with producing those...
North Korea is tightening import controls on detergents, soap and stationery as part of a broader push to promote domestic consumer goods, following the...
North Korea has been promoting the expansion of coastal fish farms as an achievement, but seafood prices in local markets have actually been rising....
North Hamgyong province has issued emergency orders demanding material support and labor brigade recruitment for the phase 5 construction project in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district,...
Despite the North Korean authorities’ intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand,...
Two North Korean defector women who exchanged WeChat messages about reaching South Korea were arrested by Chinese police in early February and remain in...
A near-theft of compost painstakingly produced by a side-business work team under the logistics bureau of North Korea’s Ninth Corps headquarters has prompted workers...
Households in Ryanggang province have been ordered to prepare gravel for spring road repairs, Daily NK has learned. The directive, issued under the pretext...
North Korean consulate vehicles in China have been used to transport goods banned under U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea. The practice has...
As modern apartment dwellers in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang struggle to heat their homes in the winter, some apparently miss the old-fashioned...
North Koreans went on an unusual consumer spending spree over an extended holiday weekend in mid-February, when the conjunction of Kim Jong Il’s birthday...
