Updates Latest News, Videos and Photos- The Press United https://thepressunited.com/updates/ The Press United is Daily news analysis website. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://thepressunited.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-android-chrome-192x192-1-32x32.png Updates Latest News, Videos and Photos- The Press United https://thepressunited.com/updates/ 32 32 North Korea courts Chinese private investors for Pyongyang commercial complex https://thepressunited.com/news/north-korea-courts-chinese-private-investors-for-pyongyang-commercial-complex/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-korea-courts-chinese-private-investors-for-pyongyang-commercial-complex Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:51 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181670 North Korea is pushing to develop a large commercial complex in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district and is actively courting Chinese private investors to fund it. According to a Daily NK source, the North’s Ministry of External Economic Affairs has been running an investor recruitment campaign since last year, fronting the effort through a North Korea-China joint […]

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]]> North Korea shifts education costs onto the public with new funding law https://thepressunited.com/news/north-korea-shifts-education-costs-onto-the-public-with-new-funding-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-korea-shifts-education-costs-onto-the-public-with-new-funding-law Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:09:44 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181668 North Korea has formalized a system requiring institutions, enterprises, and ordinary citizens to financially support state education through a newly obtained law, shifting the cost of educational development away from the central government and onto local bodies and the public. Daily NK has obtained the full text of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Law […]

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]]> Built by Pyongyang: The North Korean company behind Africa’s most iconic monuments https://thepressunited.com/news/built-by-pyongyang-the-north-korean-company-behind-africas-most-iconic-monuments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=built-by-pyongyang-the-north-korean-company-behind-africas-most-iconic-monuments Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:09:13 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181666 North Korea has long relied on unconventional means to earn hard currency in the face of sweeping international sanctions that have effectively shut off most legitimate export channels. One of the more distinctive methods has been the export of architectural and monumental construction services to African nations, carried out through Mansudae Overseas Projects, a Pyongyang-based […]

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]]> N. Korea arrests official for quoting Kim Il Sung in Kim Jong Un session https://thepressunited.com/news/n-korea-arrests-official-for-quoting-kim-il-sung-in-kim-jong-un-session/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=n-korea-arrests-official-for-quoting-kim-il-sung-in-kim-jong-un-session Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:09:44 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181664 A provincial party official in North Hamgyong province was seized by State Information Bureau agents the moment he stepped down from the lectern at a political lecture session last month, after accidentally mixing quotes from Kim Il Sung into a presentation intended to promote the distinct ideological legacy of Kim Jong Un, Daily NK has […]

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]]> North Korean elite school student expelled for tutoring during school holiday https://thepressunited.com/news/north-korean-elite-school-student-expelled-for-tutoring-during-school-holiday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-korean-elite-school-student-expelled-for-tutoring-during-school-holiday Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:09:38 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181662 A student at an elite provincial school in North Hamgyong province has been forcibly transferred to an ordinary school after a neighbor reported the student to local party authorities for tutoring younger students for pay during a school holiday, Daily NK has learned. North Korea’s provincial No. 1 middle schools are selective institutions that function […]

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]]> North Korea threatens criminal punishment for diverting factory goods to informal markets https://thepressunited.com/news/north-korea-threatens-criminal-punishment-for-diverting-factory-goods-to-informal-markets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-korea-threatens-criminal-punishment-for-diverting-factory-goods-to-informal-markets Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:09:49 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181660 The party committee of Songchon county, South Pyongan province, has ordered a complete halt to the flow of state-produced goods into informal markets, threatening officials and factory workers with expulsion, dismissal, and criminal prosecution if they divert even a single item for private sale. A Daily NK source in South Pyongan province reported Thursday that […]

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]]> Air China’s Beijing-Pyongyang resumption stirs economic hopes inside North Korea https://thepressunited.com/news/air-chinas-beijing-pyongyang-resumption-stirs-economic-hopes-inside-north-korea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=air-chinas-beijing-pyongyang-resumption-stirs-economic-hopes-inside-north-korea Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:09:46 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181658 North Korea resumed its first direct Air China flights from Beijing in six years on March 30, and the news has spread quickly inside the country, stirring genuine excitement among North Korean people who hope the resumption will bring Chinese traders back and improve daily living condition. A Daily NK source in North Hamgyong province […]

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]]> North Korea fuel prices surge 20% as Iran war squeezes oil supply https://thepressunited.com/news/north-korea-fuel-prices-surge-20-as-iran-war-squeezes-oil-supply/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-korea-fuel-prices-surge-20-as-iran-war-squeezes-oil-supply Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:09:31 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181656 North Korea’s market prices have surged for the second consecutive month, with fuel costs leading the way as gasoline and diesel prices each jumped roughly 20% in just two weeks, according to Daily NK’s latest market survey. Daily NK conducts regular price monitoring across North Korea’s informal markets, known as jangmadang, drawing on a network […]

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]]> North Korea triples border enforcement as Kim Jong Un ideology campaign intensifies https://thepressunited.com/news/north-korea-triples-border-enforcement-as-kim-jong-un-ideology-campaign-intensifies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-korea-triples-border-enforcement-as-kim-jong-un-ideology-campaign-intensifies Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:09:41 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181654 A wave of mandatory study sessions centered on “Kim Jong Un Thought” has swept Ryanggang province following the Ninth Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Congress, with officials working around the clock to master new ideological directives and border-area enforcement intensifying threefold, a Daily NK source reported Wednesday. A source in Ryanggang province told Daily NK […]

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]]> North Korea orders campaign to erase South Korea from youth consciousness https://thepressunited.com/news/north-korea-orders-campaign-to-erase-south-korea-from-youth-consciousness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-korea-orders-campaign-to-erase-south-korea-from-youth-consciousness Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:09:23 +0000 https://thepressunited.com/?p=181652 North Korea has ordered a sweeping ideological campaign to erase South Korea from the minds of young people, directing youth organizations to conduct weekly sessions aimed at purging South Korean cultural influence from those under 30, a Daily NK source reported Tuesday. A source in North Hamgyong province said that on March 22, authorities issued […]

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