Tag: Daily NK: North Korea

The families of North Korean defectors are being watched very closely by North Korean state security agents in the rural border region of Yanggang...

Chinese police are piling more and more pressure on North Korean defectors in China. The police are even warning that defectors could be sent...

After several paratroopers died in a drill attended by Kim Jong Un in March, the North Korean leader personally supervised the regime’s response to...

The North Korean military’s General Staff Department is holding a large number of tactical drills and inspections from June 10 to 30, Daily NK...

North Korean social organizations, including the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, the Socialist Women’s Union of Korea and the Socialist Patriotic Youth...

North Koreans were shocked to hear that a guidance officer at a forced labor camp in Yanggang Province recently beat up an inmate old...

Satellite images show a new factory being built on a 3.3-hectare lot in Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province. Kyongsong was one of the first...

North Korean authorities have begun replacing managers sent to Russia to monitor and control North Korean workers in the country, Daily NK has learned....

In late May, North Korea sent two batches of balloons filled with trash – including cigarette butts and waste paper – across the border...

The North Korean authorities have rewarded the young people who helped build Pyongyang’s Jonwi Street by selecting some of them to join the Workers’...

The North Korean authorities keep men and women serving life sentences in the Hamhung and Kaechon concentration camps in separate quarters in accordance with...

North Korea hurriedly launched a so-called spy satellite in the middle of the night on May 27, but it reportedly failed when the rocket’s...

Electronic payment services such as offline payments using QR codes are becoming increasingly popular among young North Koreans in major cities, Daily NK has...

Crackdowns and inspections targeting the consumption or distribution of foreign content, including South Korean movies and dramas, have suddenly intensified in North Hamgyong Province...