Monthly Archives: March 2022
N. Korea sentences official accused of smuggling to 15 years in a forced labor...
North Korea has sentenced a security official accused of smuggling in the China-North Korea border region to 15 years in a forced labor camp,...
Online discussion with defectors suggests N. Koreans want more than just TV shows and...
A North Korean defector has called on the outside world to provide North Koreans with a higher level of information than just TV shows...
North Korea Market Price Update: March 20, 2022
All prices shown in KPW and current as of March 20, 2022.
Data: Daily NK
Hyesan Coal Mine workers suffer from outbreak of tuberculosis
There has been a recent outbreak of tuberculosis among workers at Hyesan Coal Mine in Yanggang Province, Daily NK has learned.
A Daily NK source...
Hoeryong lecturer criticizes Chinese mobile users as “tools of the enemy”
A source says North Korean authorities are intensifying their criticism of users of Chinese-made mobile phones in regions along the country’s border with China,...
For trafficked North Korean women, the road to justice remains long
“I feel honoured to have met so many extraordinary people across East Asia and around the world,” Sylvia Yu Friedman writes near the end...
Two families die in succession in Hoeryong due to lack of food
Recently, a family in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, starved to death while another family chose to commit suicide as they, too, were facing starvation.
A...
N. Korean teacher publicly criticized for openly asking students for gifts
Amid reports that North Korean teachers are suffering from severe privation, a teacher in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, was recently criticized during a public...
One of N. Korea’s largest fertilizer plants still suffers from equipment failures
Equipment failures are once again causing production problems at Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, one of North Korea’s largest fertilizer plants.
According to a source in...
N. Korea creates new organization to push forward deployment of military reconnaissance satellites
With North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently pledging to deploy military reconnaissance satellites en masse over the next five years, a working-level organization...
