Police boxes in cities and counties throughout North Hamgyong province, including Hoeryong, have intensified public controls following provincial police orders to ensure a year...
Commanders of North Korea’s elite 91 Metropolitan Defense Corps were caught embezzling funds collected from soldiers and their families for modernizing and renovating base...
North Korea’s Supreme Prosecutor’s Office issued an emergency order Jan. 19 activating a long-dormant legal provision that allows the replacement of corrupt prosecutors at...
Contract manufacturing work once done by ordinary North Koreans in their homes is shifting to prisons and state-run factories as Chinese businesses reduce orders...
North Korea’s aggressive expansion of aquaculture operations has created a system of labor exploitation along the country’s west coast, where workers assigned to collect...
While North Korea is prohibited from exporting fishery products under United Nations Security Council sanctions, seafood from the North, including pricey dried sea cucumbers,...
Trade representatives from Rason are purchasing large quantities of shellfish and other seafood from coastal areas of South Hamgyong province for export to China,...
People gathering firewood in the hills along North Korea’s northern border with China are dodging forest rangers who have intensified patrols to meet quotas...
A source in Nampo told Daily NK recently that the city “called on factories and enterprises to take charge of collecting agricultural supplies farmers...
Contract manufacturing accounts for such a large share of North Korea’s official trade with China that wigs and false eyelashes are its top exports....
