Monthly Archives: December 2021
More than 80% of expected university graduates to be dispatched as members of “Three...
Daily NK has learned that North Korean authorities have recently ordered that more than 80% of expected university graduates be dispatched as members of...
North Hamgyong Province announces plan to build new clinic complex in Saebyol County
A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Tuesday that at a meeting of heads of all provincial party and administrative bodies,...
Hyesan residents on edge as word spreads about teen sentenced to 14 years for...
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article wrongly stated that viewers of South Korean video material face the death penalty, based on explanatory materials...
Hundreds of North Koreans arrested over the past year for using Chinese cellphones
Daily NK’s investigation into the North Korean authorities’ crackdown on users of Chinese-made mobile phones from January to Dec. 8 of this year has...
North Korea Market Price Update: December 13, 2021
All prices shown in KPW and current as of December 13, 2021.
Data: Daily NK
Domestically produced carbon monoxide alarms are being sold in Pyongyang
North Korea is selling locally built remote gas alarms to residents of Pyongyang to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning in the winter months, Daily NK...
North Korea establishes new system to classify inmates in political prisons
North Korea has established a new system to classify inmates of its political prisons. A source says 60% of the political prisoners in the...
Kim Yo Jong conducted surprise inspection of Pyongyang’s Hospital No. 11 in mid-November
Central Committee Deputy Director Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, made a surprise inspection visit to Pyongyang’s...
N. Korea intensifies efforts to crack down on anti-socialist behavior ahead of party meeting
With the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee scheduled for the end of the year, North Korea is reportedly launching an all-out...
North Korean authorities call for more intensified controls on overseas workers
North Korean authorities are exerting increasingly cruel surveillance and controls to prevent defections by North Korean workers who have been dispatched abroad. Pyongyang is...