North Korea has dispatched central party inspection teams to major factories in Sinuiju, the capital of North Pyongan province, in a sweeping audit of...
African swine fever (ASF), a highly contagious and often fatal viral disease in pigs for which no vaccine currently exists, is spreading again across...
North Korean food factories are producing confectionery products riddled with contaminants, including hair and thin metal wire, fueling a growing public health controversy and...
North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) launched a sweeping inspection of senior middle schools in 2026 after a new elective subject system...
North Korea has intensified its ideological crackdown following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), with the WPK Secretariat ordering security...
North Koreans in 2026 are tuning out state media — but they aren’t tuning out entirely.
While most North Koreans dismiss domestic news broadcasts as...
North Korea’s annual military conscription season is now underway, and the Social Safety Forces — the country’s internal security force, roughly equivalent to South...
North Korea announced a second 10-year reforestation campaign in April 2026, pledging to restore degraded forests across the country through 2035 — but satellite...
North Korean farmers in parts of North Pyongan province are increasingly abandoning staple food crops on their private plots in favor of higher-value cash...
Remittance brokers operating near North Korea’s border are shaking down the families of North Korean defectors, extorting money from people who recently received funds...
North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) issued a classified directive to senior foreign ministry officials in early April 2026 ordering them to...
