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North Koreans forced to pay for Kim Il Sung birthday celebrations

North Korean people across the country were mobilized for pre-dawn street cleaning and forced to cover the costs of building repairs and flower baskets...

North Korea’s self-reliance push costs factory worker a finger

A technician at a coal mining machinery factory in Chongjin lost a finger recently while attempting to produce insulating paper using scrap lumber, an...

Kim Jong Un sidelines his predecessors in sweeping cult of personality push

North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of...

Middle East oil shock doubles North Korea freight costs, squeezes traders

Rising oil prices driven by instability in the Middle East are pushing up fuel costs inside North Korea, with transport fees charged by private...

South Korea’s rushed embrace of Kim Jong Un’s ‘two-state theory’ is sowing confusion

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un first introduced the concept of two hostile states in late 2023, framing South Korea as the country’s foremost enemy....

When one North Korean defector disappears in China, police round up everyone they know

Chinese police have sharply intensified surveillance of North Korean defectors living in China, summoning and interrogating entire social networks whenever a single individual goes...

North Korean factories turn workers into salespeople under revamped informal labor system

A longstanding informal labor arrangement in North Korea is taking on a new form, with factory workers now directly distributing factory-made goods and remitting...

North Koreans mock ‘second’ reforestation drive: ‘When did the first one happen?’

North Korea is pushing a nationwide tree-planting drive under the banner of its “Second Reforestation Project,” but on the ground in South Hamgyong province...

North Korea factories join spring foraging scramble, squeezing out ordinary people

As spring foraging season gets underway across North Korea, workers from state-run food factories have joined the annual race for wild mountain vegetables. Their...

Pet shop in Pyongyang sparks anger and envy among North Korea’s provincial poor

North Koreans outside Pyongyang are reacting with resentment and disbelief after state media broadcast footage of Kim Jong Un and his daughter, Ju Ae,...

Satellite imagery shows Yongbyon nuclear complex in active modernization phase

Recent satellite imagery and analysis by international monitoring organizations indicate that North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, the country’s primary nuclear complex located...

North Korea resumes China transport links but clamps down on tourist entry

North Korea resumed rail and air links with China in late March after a roughly six-year COVID-19 suspension, marking a significant development in North...

North Korea’s rote learning sessions pressure workers after Ninth Party Congress

North Korea has tightened ideological controls since the Ninth Workers’ Party of Korea Congress. Now, first-quarter Q&A-style ideological review sessions have swept across nearly...

North Korean students mobilized to farm school land as rations dry up

North Korean students have barely settled into the new school year before being pulled out of class to expand school farmland plots, with parents...

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