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Recent satellite images suggest that North Korea is restarting test operations of its experimental light water reactor in Yongbyon. The reactor, reportedly in test...

Police in Heilongjiang Province’s city of Mudanjiang are planning to implement legal procedures aimed at protecting the rights of North Korean defectors arrested trying...

At the beginning of April, North Korean authorities carried out a two-week inspection of farms in South Pyongan Province that are responsible for supplying...

In autumn 2020, when North Korea implemented broad-ranging nationwide lockdowns in response to COVID-19, North Koreans faced limits in everything they did. Doing business...

North Korean authorities are drawing up plans to minimize the economic damage the international community’s moves to block imports of Chinese seafood produced through...

While it is fairly common for unmarried North Korean women to have children, single mothers receive no support from the government and are even...

The North Korean government has ordered the confiscation of all cell phones owned by workers in Russia, Daily NK has learned. As the North...

After the Kaesong Industrial Complex was shuttered in 2016, reports emerged that North Korea was using its facilities without permission from the South Korean...

North Korea recently released a new propaganda song extolling leader Kim Jong Un titled “Friendly Father,” but North Koreans who have heard the song...

Amid a rise in violence among soldiers in the military, North Korea’s military recently ordered an end to beatings in boot camps amid concerns...

Following a Daily NK report on Apr. 8 about the financial exploitation of North Korean workers in Russia, North Korea’s Ministry of State Security...

Kangwon Province has been ordered by the North Korean cabinet to speed up the development of the Mount Kumgang tourism area, Daily NK has...

Distinguished North Korea experts Jeffrey Lewis, in 2022, followed by John Delury, in 2024, published articles of the same tone in the New York...

The police in Changchun, the capital of China’s Jilin Province, have announced plans to update the personal information of female North Korean defectors who...