North Korean authorities have sharply escalated inspections of jangmadang markets in Hamhung city, seizing domestically produced household goods from vendors and routing them into...
The Nampo party committee has ordered teachers at orphan care facilities to personally take malnourished and sick children into their own homes to nurse...
North Korea’s state media has stopped referencing “Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism,” the ideological framework underpinning the Kim dynasty for decades, following the ninth congress of the Workers’...
Young people in Sinuiju are volunteering for construction brigades before the state can assign them elsewhere, choosing what they see as the least harmful...
On June 21, 2025, the United States carried out Operation Midnight Hammer, deploying B-2 stealth bombers armed with GBU-57 massive bunker busters and cruise...
North Korea is celebrating the nationwide supply of school uniforms as one of its crowning socialist achievements, but factory workers tasked with producing those...
North Korea is tightening import controls on detergents, soap and stationery as part of a broader push to promote domestic consumer goods, following the...
North Korea has been promoting the expansion of coastal fish farms as an achievement, but seafood prices in local markets have actually been rising....
North Hamgyong province has issued emergency orders demanding material support and labor brigade recruitment for the phase 5 construction project in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district,...
Despite the North Korean authorities’ intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand,...
