Equality gap persists in North Korean recreational facilities
Recreational facilities for officials at powerful institutions are better supplied than similar facilities for ordinary North Koreans, demonstrating that high-ranking party officials continue to...
Smartphones continue to change North Korean society
Smartphones are driving major shifts in North Korean lifestyles, Daily NK sources recently reported.
“The mobile phone is single-handedly changing our lifestyles,” a Pyongyang-based source...
North Korea Market Prices Update: October 14, 2019
All prices shown in KPW and current as of October 14, 2019.
Data: Daily NK
Kim Jong Un flouts his own rules in recent Mount Paektu...
Photographs of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ascending Mount Paektu recently published in Rodong Sinmun have come under criticism for embodying the realities...
N. Korea curbs electricity use in military hospitals
On Nov. 5, North Korean authorities ordered its army to minimize the electricity consumption of military hospitals as well as during its winter training...
N. Korea is moving closer to achieving its “strategic position”
North Korea is again raising the stakes. Having urged a change in the US denuclearization calculus in the runup to their “end-of-the-year” deadline for...
Has North Korea firmly decided to head down a “new path”?
On Monday, festivities on North Korea’s Mount Paektu, a mountain of great spiritual significance for both North and South Koreans, marked the reaching of...
Update : 19-11-15
| Won | Pyongyang | Sinuiju | Hyesan |
| Exchange Rate | 8,100 | 8,100 | 8,190 |
| Rice Price | 4,900 | 4,900 | 5,000 |
