Text message ads sent through smartphones are booming in North Korea, with users receiving over 10 commercial messages a day as companies compete to...
North Korea’s Central Committee has ordered provincial party committees to pay special attention to families with multiple children, dispatching “visitation teams” to homes to...
With the authorities collecting military rice supplies in agricultural communities throughout North Korea, the age-old practice of pilfering supplies on the ground is repeating...
Radio Free Asia (RFA) may have suspended the production and broadcasting of programs into North Korea, but Pyongyang is keeping quiet about it, including...
On Nov. 5, the South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency reported in a closed-door audit by the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee that North Korea is...
North Korea has abruptly recalled trade representatives from China and replaced some with new officials in an apparent bid to boost foreign currency earnings...
North Korea has been focusing on ideological indoctrination to teach the public that it is a completely independent nation — not an incomplete, divided...
The Central Committee’s Discipline Inspection Department launched an internal inspection of Unpa Mine in South Pyongan province after female laborers at the mine complained...
Puffer coats from foreign brands imported by state-authorized smugglers have become very popular with affluent North Korean customers at marketplaces in Hyesan, Ryanggang province,...
A recent article from CNN on President Trump’s missed meeting with Kim Jong Un illustrates the complex sourcing challenges that plague Western coverage of...
North Korea eliminated the foreign ministry’s Fatherland Reunification Bureau in early 2022, well before leader Kim Jong Un proclaimed his “two hostile states” doctrine,...
