North Hamgyong province has issued emergency orders demanding material support and labor brigade recruitment for the phase 5 construction project in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district,...
Despite the North Korean authorities’ intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand,...
Two North Korean defector women who exchanged WeChat messages about reaching South Korea were arrested by Chinese police in early February and remain in...
A near-theft of compost painstakingly produced by a side-business work team under the logistics bureau of North Korea’s Ninth Corps headquarters has prompted workers...
Households in Ryanggang province have been ordered to prepare gravel for spring road repairs, Daily NK has learned. The directive, issued under the pretext...
North Korean consulate vehicles in China have been used to transport goods banned under U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea. The practice has...
As modern apartment dwellers in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang struggle to heat their homes in the winter, some apparently miss the old-fashioned...
North Koreans went on an unusual consumer spending spree over an extended holiday weekend in mid-February, when the conjunction of Kim Jong Il’s birthday...
North Korea’s health ministry has ordered provincial hospitals to join a national medical computer network, expanding a digital health system previously limited to Pyongyang...
North Korea’s ruling party instructed the cabinet’s Ministry of External Economic Relations in early February to pursue a new strategy aimed at securing a...
North Korean soldiers undergoing the final month of the country’s annual winter military exercises in February 2025 are expressing relief and excitement, saying they...
