A wave of mandatory study sessions centered on “Kim Jong Un Thought” has swept Ryanggang province following the Ninth Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Congress, with officials working around...
Homeless people have been congregating nightly at Sinanju Station and other major train stations in South Pyongan province since late January, prompting authorities to...
Pyongyang city police summoned downtown residents on Feb. 1 to a public struggle session in Sosong district, where authorities publicly convicted a man arrested...
North Korea’s Ministry of State Security suspended all investigations and custodial proceedings on Feb. 8, ordering provincial bureaus onto emergency footing ahead of the...
North Korean authorities in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province, pressured local police officers late last month to adopt orphans under a pro-natalist law that grants...
A North Korean university in Wonsan, Kangwon province, held a mandatory ideological lecture on Feb. 1 instructing faculty and students to view South Korea...
North Korean authorities suspended state smuggling across North Pyongan, North Hamgyong and Jagang provinces in early February, ahead of the Ninth Party Congress scheduled...
Two North Korean drug traffickers were arrested at a checkpoint in North Hamgyong province in recent days after attempting to smuggle methamphetamine from Hamhung...
North Korean educational authorities ordered high schools in North Hamgyong province to adopt research-based learning methods in late January, pushing a shift away from...
North Korean motels are seeing a sharp rise in customers after operators across several major cities quietly stopped requiring travel passes, a move driven...
As residents of the northern highlands of North Hamgyong province suffer from firewood shortages amid freezing winter temperatures, the city of Hoeryong launched a...
As North Korea launched a fresh crackdown on the illicit gold trade in early February 2025, state security agents in North Pyongan province arrested...
With propaganda campaigns more active than ever throughout North Korea ahead of the Ninth Party Congress, the driver of a loudspeaker truck in Haeju,...
Satellite thermal data show that North Korea’s 5MWe reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear complex is registering surface temperatures far colder than its surroundings, even...
Food sales to merchants around the marketplaces of Hyesan, Ryanggang province, are booming as freezing temperatures drive demand for warm, affordable meals, though sources...
