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North Korean spy agency turns on its own informant

A remittance broker in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, who had worked as a state security informant for years, was arrested by state security officers in...

N. Korea hails family that skipped 60th birthday feast as frugality model

North Korean authorities have held up a Hyesan family that skipped a traditional 60th birthday celebration in late January as a model of socialist...

North Korean parents pursue fake divorces to keep sons out of the army

As enlistment season approaches for North Korean high school graduates in early 2025, parents in South Hamgyong province are pursuing sham divorces to exempt...

North Korea hands out Russian flour for Kim Jong Il’s birthday

North Korean authorities distributed wheat flour imported from Russia to government agencies, army units, mines and other state institutions in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province...

Viral phrase mocks North Korea’s untouchable wealthy class

A satirical phrase mocking North Korea’s wealthy class has been making the rounds in Ryanggang province marketplaces, blending lyrics from two well-known songs into...

Elite Pyongyang defense unit hit with secrets scandal

North Korea’s 91st Capital Defense Corps, known as Training Camp 91, is facing fresh scrutiny after a defense ministry inspection found widespread failures to...

Birthday cake trend widens wealth gap among N. Korean schoolchildren

A growing birthday cake trend among North Korean elementary school students is deepening social divides, with children from poorer families being excluded from parties...

Homeless crowd Sinanju Station for warmth as authorities tighten access

Homeless people have been congregating nightly at Sinanju Station and other major train stations in South Pyongan province since late January, prompting authorities to...

Pyongyang holds public struggle session over South Korean content distribution

Pyongyang city police summoned downtown residents on Feb. 1 to a public struggle session in Sosong district, where authorities publicly convicted a man arrested...

N. Korea freezes investigations ahead of party congress

North Korea’s Ministry of State Security suspended all investigations and custodial proceedings on Feb. 8, ordering provincial bureaus onto emergency footing ahead of the...

North Korean police resist pressure to adopt orphans under pro-natalist law

North Korean authorities in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province, pressured local police officers late last month to adopt orphans under a pro-natalist law that grants...

N. Korean university holds anti-South Korea lecture ahead of party congress

A North Korean university in Wonsan, Kangwon province, held a mandatory ideological lecture on Feb. 1 instructing faculty and students to view South Korea...

North Korea halts state smuggling ahead of party congress

North Korean authorities suspended state smuggling across North Pyongan, North Hamgyong and Jagang provinces in early February, ahead of the Ninth Party Congress scheduled...

Drug traffickers caught at N. Korean checkpoint with hundreds of grams of meth

Two North Korean drug traffickers were arrested at a checkpoint in North Hamgyong province in recent days after attempting to smuggle methamphetamine from Hamhung...

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