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...
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...
A technician at a coal mining machinery factory in Chongjin lost a finger recently while attempting to produce insulating paper using scrap lumber, an...
North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of...
Chinese police have sharply intensified surveillance of North Korean defectors living in China, summoning and interrogating entire social networks whenever a single individual goes...
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 Korea is pushing a nationwide tree-planting drive under the banner of its “Second Reforestation Project,” but on the ground in South Hamgyong province...
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...
North Koreans outside Pyongyang are reacting with resentment and disbelief after state media broadcast footage of Kim Jong Un and his daughter, Ju Ae,...
