Tag: Daily NK: North Korea

At a year-end party meeting, North Korea’s provinces were ordered to improve the quality of consumer goods and basic foodstuffs as their first task...

After recently ordering weapons factories to expand weapons production, North Korean authorities have now issued a somewhat puzzling order for factories to abandon slower...

Hyesan police recently launched a manhunt for a man in his twenties who escaped while being investigated for theft, Daily NK has learned. After the...

As the North Korean government seeks to tighten ideological control over the “next generation” of children and young people this year, it is taking...

A change in re-education camp regulations last year was aimed at reducing the number of deaths in the camps by returning inmates to society...

There was a time when it was possible to take pictures of North Korea by crossing the Yalu and Tumen rivers. After the border...

The committee tasked with promoting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s “20×10 regional development policy” recently issued its first order, calling on North Pyongan...

North Korea has seen a spike in tuberculosis cases from the autumn of last year to the present. The loosening of COVID-19 prevention measures...

The central headquarters of the North Korean Socialist Patriotic Youth League recently ordered students to help improve the morale of the factory workers who...

Authorities in North Hamgyong Province recently ordered local officials to engage in intensive efforts to complete the production of student uniforms by Feb. 1,...

Several universities in Sinuiju recently suspended classes for three days so that students could focus on water collection after water pipes burst due to...

North Korea has recently stepped up its crackdown on people who own “extra” memory cards. The mere possession of such cards is considered equivalent...

The North Korean military’s Eighth Corps received a failing grade in a recent interim evaluation of the unit’s performance in winter training, Daily NK...

The North Korean authorities are holding intensive study sessions to reinforce ideological discipline among the country’s young people, Daily NK has learned. The ideological...