Tag: Daily NK: North Korea

Pyongyang residents are thrilled about the Kwangchon Chicken Farm chicken and eggs recently made available by their government, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on condition...

An official of the Kaechon People’s Committee was recently subjected to a public struggle session for using his position to solicit bribes in exchange...

In early June 2022, a man surnamed Choe, the chief of the military medical department of the Second Division of the First Corps –...

Rice prices at North Korean markets have fallen to some degree in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holiday. The market price of...

Two North Korean defectors who talked to each other about going to South Korea were recently arrested by the Chinese police in Hebei Province,...

The leader of a gang of bicycle thieves recently arrested by the police in North Hamgyong Province will likely receive a slap on the...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Korean in November 2021.  In early November 2012, North Korea’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) made it...

North Korea’s military leadership recently ordered all units to modernize their combat training record-keeping system by making records daily instead of monthly and placing...

After announcing plans to upgrade North Korea’s nuclear arsenal at the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea in early 2021, Kim Jong...

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...