Monthly Archives: May 2022
N. Korea’s security agency spreads rumors suggesting a S. Korean connection with the COVID-19...
North Korea’s Ministry of State Security has recently started efforts directed at residents of the country’s China-North Korea border region to blame the domestic...
S. Pyongan Province supplies N. Hamgyong Province with coal
Before North Korean authorities officially announced an outbreak of COVID-19 on May 12, South Pyongan Province shipped coal to North Hamgyong Province, Daily NK...
Four high school students in Chongjin punished for sexually assaulting teacher
Four students at a high school in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, were recently punished for sexually assaulting their headteacher back in March, Daily NK...
N. Koreans eye investment opportunities in Pyongyang’s Hwasong District
Following the North Korean government’s move to develop new housing complexes in Pyongyang’s newly designated “Hwasong District,” many people in the city are eyeing...
[Notice] Daily NK to discontinue updating certain market data on its English website
Effective June 1, 2022, Daily NK will no longer update its North Korea market price data (specifically, RMB/KPW exchange rates, corn, pork, gas and...
N. Korea compels party members to contribute household medicine and food for those in...
North Korea is compelling party members to contribute household medicine and food, ostensibly for people in quarantine. It appears, however, that people locked in...
[Photos] What kind of Chinese medicine is being sold in N. Korea to treat...
On Monday, Daily NK obtained a picture of Chinese medicine being sold at a pharmacy in Pyongyang. The medicine appears to have been recently...
Ten days after going into lockdown, Hyesan loosens restrictions on movement
Hyesan authorities recently loosened restrictions on movement in the city, ten days after the administrative center of Yanggang Province was put under lockdown due...
Ordinary N. Korean soldiers are suffering due to a shortage of medicine
North Korean authorities are supplying COVID-19 medications to Pyongyang and other areas of the country with support of the military, but ordinary soldiers are...
N. Korea’s COVID-19 outbreak is presenting challenges for agricultural mobilizations
North Korea’s COVID-19 outbreak is causing difficulties in the country’s efforts to mobilize people to plant crops and only limited government support is being...
