The story of one victim of North Korea’s informant system
In early February 2023, a young woman knelt in a cell at a police station in Haeju, South Hwanghae Province, her hands cuffed through...
N. Korean teacher replaced after encouraging competition among students
On Aug. 31 of last year, the teaching staff at an elementary school in Taegwan County, North Pyongan Province, nervously gathered for an emergency...
The tragic story of a North Korean “defector hunter”
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Korean in November 2021.
In early November 2012, North Korea's Ministry of State Security (MSS) made it...
Three soldiers caught mimicking S. Korean dance moves sent to political prison camp
Three soldiers with a unit under the Korean People's Army Air and Anti Air Force Command were arrested during a tour of Mount Paekdu...
Behind N. Korea’s lockdown of Kaesong in July 2020
In July 2020, Kaesong was put on lockdown when a North Korean defector crossed the inter-Korean border amid the COVID pandemic.
According to media reports,...
Was Ipo Village really ground zero for N. Korea’s COVID outbreak?
In early June 2022, a man surnamed Choe, the chief of the military medical department of the Second Division of the First Corps -...
N. Korea still forbids women from setting foot on naval vessels
Next year, South Korea will achieve a historic national first by deploying female navy personnel onboard its submarines. In doing so, South Korea would...
MPARI: North Korea’s elite architectural design institute
This article is part of a series written by Daily NK journalist Kim Jeong Hun entitled “North Korea’s Secret Stories.”
In an era where even...
Lifting the veil on Sinuiju’s crackdown on private education in January 2022
This article is part of a series called "North Korea's Secret Stories."
The North Pyongan Province branch of the “unified command on non-socialist and anti-socialist...
Do you know the punishment for smuggling a Bible into North Korea?
This article is part of a series written by Daily NK journalist Kim Jeong Hun entitled “North Korea’s Secret Stories.”
In the summer of 2021,...
