North Koreans in 2026 are tuning out state media — but they aren’t tuning out entirely.
While most North Koreans dismiss domestic news broadcasts as...
North Korea’s annual military conscription season is now underway, and the Social Safety Forces — the country’s internal security force, roughly equivalent to South...
North Korea announced a second 10-year reforestation campaign in April 2026, pledging to restore degraded forests across the country through 2035 — but satellite...
North Korean farmers in parts of North Pyongan province are increasingly abandoning staple food crops on their private plots in favor of higher-value cash...
Remittance brokers operating near North Korea’s border are shaking down the families of North Korean defectors, extorting money from people who recently received funds...
North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) issued a classified directive to senior foreign ministry officials in early April 2026 ordering them to...
North Korean people across the country were mobilized for pre-dawn street cleaning and forced to cover the costs of building repairs and flower baskets...
A technician at a coal mining machinery factory in Chongjin lost a finger recently while attempting to produce insulating paper using scrap lumber, an...
North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of...
