N. Korean rice prices continue upward march despite potato, wheat and barley harvest
Although North Korea is currently harvesting potatoes, wheat, barley and other rice-alternatives, the price of rice continues to increase in the country's markets. In...
Yanggang Province encourages residents to comply with livestock excrement-related rules
Yanggang Province is calling on its residents to strictly comply with rules regulating livestock excrement.
A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Friday...
A highly infectious disease is killing North Korea’s apple and pear trees
Some of North Korea's fruit producing regions have fallen victim to “fire blight,” a highly contagious disease that can shrivel and kill an entire...
Many in S. Pyongan Province frustrated over inadequate government response to rain damage
Many people in South Pyongan Province are frustrated over the lack of response from the government to the severe damage to rice paddies and...
S. Hamgyong Province holds meeting to discuss purchases of potatoes, barley, and wheat
With North Korea entering the harvest season for potatoes, barley and wheat, South Hamgyong Province's people committee recently held an emergency meeting to discuss...
Spread of tubercular lymphadenitis causes alarm in S. Hwanghae Province
Efforts to mobilize labor for collective farms in South Hwanghae Province have gone into emergency mode after a recent spike in cases of tubercular...
Questions raised about N. Korea’s claim that rice transplanting has been completed nationwide
Even though North Korea claims that it completed rice transplanting nationwide, work reportedly remains incomplete in many areas.
A source in South Pyongan Province told...
Some regions of N. Korea falsely claim completion of rice transplanting activities
North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun recently claimed that the country had completed rice transplanting on time despite an unprecedented drought and the “maximum emergency anti-epidemic...
Farmers in N. Pyongan Province arrested for stealing rice seedlings
Facing a shortage of rice seedlings, members of a collective farm in Taechon County, North Pyongan Province, were recently arrested for stealing seedlings from...
N. Korea distributes lecture material calling for all-out focus on “weeding fields”
North Korean authorities recently distributed lecture material calling for the “full concentration” of the country’s labor force on weeding fields.
According to a Daily NK...
