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North Korean farmer shares his hopes for the New Year

At the 9th Plenary Session of the 8th Party Central Committee in December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un emphasized rural housing construction, rural...

Insiders say North Korea is not in any position to immediately wage war

After defining the inter-Korean relationship at a year-end party meeting as “between two hostile states,” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stoked war fever...

Two N. Koreans near the border with China share their wishes for the New Year

At the Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un listed indicators...

N. Korea races to field strategic weapons before US election in November

North Korea recently raised tensions by announcing the launch of a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) with a new solid-fuel propulsion system. Pyongyang appears...

N. Korean police and state security officials in Pyongsong receive year’s worth of rations

North Korean police and state security officers in Pyongsong, South Pyongan Province, recently received a year’s worth of food rations. Amid government propaganda about...

North Korean soldiers talk about what they most desire in the New Year

When a soldier of a military unit stationed in North Hwanghae Province was asked by a Daily NK source in the country what he...

North Korean defectors in China talk about their hardscrabble lives

Some personal horror stories of North Korean defectors who have spent years in China living a socially isolated life in appalling conditions have been...

Pyongyangites forced to eat at Pyongnam Myonok restaurant

The Pyongyang municipal government is taking action after a central government agency ordered it to fill up the seats at the newly expanded and...

Reflections on Jimmy Carter’s attempts to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula

This is the year of the “Blue Dragon.” What are your wishes for the New Year? I wish for the peaceful reunification of Korea,...

Repatriated North Korean students await decisions on their futures

Hundreds of North Korean students who were repatriated last year are being transferred to domestic universities or assigned to work. The future of the...

Chongjin man arrested for selling unusable mobile phone

A young man in Chongjin was recently detained after North Korean authorities caught him selling a broken mobile phone, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on...

North Korean soft power? Pro-North Korea fringes in US and Canadian politics

A As North Korea once again grabs global headlines, the Western media continues to completely ignore that the Hermit Kingdom has some very vocal domestic...

What N. Korea needs to do in 2024 to solve its food shortages

Kim Jong Un congratulated himself at the recent 9th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee, proclaiming that “2023 was a monumental turning point...

N. Korea continues to operate nine re-education camps throughout the country

North Korea continues to operate nine re-education camps, where the number of inmates detained for violating the country’s law to “eradicate reactionary thought and...

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