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North Korean students board with music tutors to boost career prospects

North Korean students seeking to learn musical instruments have started boarding with their teachers in a new approach to private lessons. A source in...

N. Korea hosts lavish retiree celebrations for party anniversary

North Korea celebrated meritorious retirees at welfare centers nationwide in an unprecedentedly grand event marking the 80th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party, a...

North Korea launches app-based digital grain voucher system to control distribution

North Korea is launching an app-based system for rice distribution, with grain vouchers added to an electronic payment app on a trial basis in...

Ministry of State Security gauges attitudes toward China ties after ambassador’s Rodong Sinmun piece

North Korea’s Ministry of State Security has been canvassing public opinion about the column that Chinese ambassador Wang Yajun published in the Rodong Sinmun...

North Korean workers complain after receiving meager rations for Workers’ Party anniversary

After the fall harvest, North Korea’s North Hamgyong province distributed rations to workers at major enterprises to mark the 80th anniversary of the Workers’...

Orphaned North Korean teen forced to abandon school dreams to run market stall

A teenager in Tanchon, South Hamgyong province, has been making a living in the market after suddenly becoming her family’s breadwinner. “A middle schooler...

Pyongyang’s vanishing islands: Satellite images reveal aggressive sand mining in Taedong River

Recent satellite images capture the gradual disappearance of uninhabited islands in the Taedong River in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang as a result...

North Korean listeners express loss after Radio Free Asia broadcasts end in July

Two North Korean individuals who secretly listened to Radio Free Asia for years expressed profound loss after the U.S.-funded broadcaster ceased transmissions in early...

N. Korean couple divorces over disagreement on having children amid economic hardship

A North Korean couple in their 20s quarreled so severely about having children that they eventually divorced, as severe economic hardship causes more couples...

North Korea launches 100-day coal production campaign with food incentives for miners

North Korea has launched a “100-day battle of loyalty” to boost coal production in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Workers’ Party’s founding,...

Ryanggang province targets wholesale operations in comprehensive materials crackdown

The prosecutor’s office in Ryanggang province is conducting a comprehensive inspection of all construction material wholesalers in the region, creating anxiety among business operators...

N. Korea tells military officers China, Russia critical to economy and defense modernization

The Workers’ Party of Korea Secretariat has issued an order to high-ranking military officers underscoring the strategic importance of North Korea’s relationships with China...

N. Korea cracks down on people using Chinese contacts to smuggle goods

North Korean authorities are investigating dozens of people in North Pyongan province who allegedly smuggled goods into the country through ethnic Chinese intermediaries, creating...

N. Korea sends 100 IT workers to new base in Chinese border city

North Korea has dispatched about 100 IT workers to establish a new base of operations in the Chinese border city of Dandong—a significant shift...

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