Tag: Daily NK: North Korea

Hyesan smugglers rush Chinese apparel and shoes ahead of April school term

North Korean smugglers along the Chinese border are importing spring clothing, footwear and school supplies through Chinese customs ahead of the April 1 semester...

China blocks North Korean factory workers en masse

A Chinese garment factory in Liaoning province attempted to bring roughly 100 North Korean female workers into China in January, but local authorities rejected...

Kim Jong Un’s ‘two hostile states’ declaration: legal implications for the Korean Peninsula

North Korea rewrote the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) charter at the ninth WPK Congress, held Feb. 19-25, 2026, formally enshrining the “two hostile...

Satellite imagery reveals what remains of North Korea-Syria cooperation sites

Nearly two decades after an Israeli airstrike obliterated a suspected North Korean-built reactor in the Syrian desert, new satellite imagery of the Al-Kibar site...

N. Korean students face more ideology sessions as regime tightens grip on youth

North Korean schools have sharply increased mandatory political study sessions for students at all levels following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of...

International Women’s Day brings an unusual scene to North Korea: husbands buying lattes

Coffee shops in North Korea’s Sinuiju were packed with couples on International Women’s Day this year as husbands marked the holiday by taking their...

North Korea orders officer unity training after party congress

North Korea’s VIII Corps held three-day training sessions for junior officers across its units in early March, ordering them to cultivate closer bonds with...

North Korea’s inns become havens for drug deals as crackdowns intensify

Inns across North Korea are being converted into hubs for drug dealing and use as intensifying state crackdowns push narcotics activity further underground, a...

Beijing-Pyongyang passenger train service set to resume after nearly six years

North Korea and China are set to resume direct passenger rail service between Beijing and Pyongyang on March 12, ending a suspension of nearly...

North Korea drafts women’s union members to plug labor gaps at raw material bases

Raw material supply bases supporting North Korea’s local factory construction drive are struggling with chronic labor shortages, forcing the regime to mobilize members of...

Pyongsong crackdown leaves shelves bare as North Korea pushes state commerce drive

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...

Post-congress crackdown: North Korea conducts wired broadcast inspections to enforce ideological compliance

North Korean authorities are conducting household inspections of wired broadcast equipment across multiple provinces following the conclusion of the ninth Workers’ Party of Korea...

Kim Jong Un’s 9th party congress sets a new course for North Korean agriculture

The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea’s Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), reported on Feb. 28 that participants of the Ninth Congress...

North Korean youth are skipping political events, and the regime is worried

Attendance at political events and propaganda gatherings inside North Korea has been falling, and the regime appears to be taking notice. A source in...

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