Monthly Archives: March 2022
Business people in Sunchon stage raid to recover confiscated goods
Around 20 North Korean business people in Sunchon, South Pyongan Province, recently decided to take collective action after Ministry of Social Security officers stormed...
N. Korea grants special leave to unit that participated in Hwasong-17 launch
North Korea recently granted a special leave to the officers and enlisted personnel of the so-called “Red Banner Company,” which took part in the...
Hyesan residents ordered to “double mask” in the face of rising COVID-19 cases in...
North Korea is on edge as cases of COVID-19 spike in some regions of neighboring China, including Jilin Province.
A Daily NK source in Yanggang...
North Korea launches investigation into anti-socialist behavior in Wonsan
The headquarters of the unified command on non-socialist and anti-socialist behavior in Pyongyang recently launched an intensive investigation into untoward behavior in Wonsan, Gangwon...
Facing international sanctions, North Korea-Russia economic cooperation could expand
Speculation has emerged that North Korea could buy low-priced crude oil from Russia as Pyongyang and Moscow grow closer in the wake of the...
N. Korea may have recently released some of those arrested for using Chinese cellphones
There are indications that officials from the Ministry of State Security carrying out a large-scale “mop-up operation” and “campaign of extermination” against North Koreans...
N. Korea continues to face considerable difficulty in achieving coal production targets
Although North Korea likes to play up the results of its drilling operations as well as its coal mining performance, the country is reportedly...
N. Hamgyong Province to collect close to 40% of crop yields starting this fall
North Hamgyong Province farmers are expressing their frustration at the province’s rural management committee, which recently stated its intention - even before the start...
N. Hamgyong Province launches massive crackdown on petroleum sellers
Prosecutors’ offices in North Hamgyong Province have recently launched a “mopping up operation” against private merchants selling petroleum products such as gasoline or diesel.
A...
N. Hamgyong Province milk processing plant comes under fire for “complacency and incompetence”
Officials in charge of a milk processing plant in Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, have been punished for “irresponsibility” in efforts to implement party...
