North Korea Market Price Update: October 4, 2021
All prices shown in KPW and current as of October 4, 2021.
Data: Daily NK
North Korea issues order allowing people to use foreign currency at state-run food shops
North Korean authorities have recently allowed locals to purchase food using foreign currency, Daily NK has learned. This comes amid efforts by North Korean...
N. Korea is taking its time to put new foreign currency vouchers into full...
North Korea has recently issued new foreign currency vouchers, but has yet to make full-fledged efforts to put them into circulation, Daily NK has...
North Korea Market Price Update: September 20, 2021
All prices shown in KPW and current as of September 20, 2021.
Data: Daily NK
North Korea once again imports refined oil from China
North Korea has once again imported refined oil from China, Daily NK has learned. Amongst themselves, officials in North Korea are saying that imports...
North Korea’s disappearing supply of soybean oil
Imported foodstuffs have grown even more scarce in North Korean markets with the continued closure of the Sino-North Korean border.
With even ordinary foodstuffs such...
Hyesan officials intensify crackdowns on street vendors
Personnel from Yanggang Province’s Ministry of Social Security are engaged in a frenzied crackdown against street vendors, arresting any they encounter.
A source in Yanggang...
North Korea Market Price Update: September 6, 2021
All prices shown in KPW and current as of September 6, 2021.
Data: Daily NK
North Korea’s gasoline and diesel prices have been climbing recently
North Korean gasoline and diesel prices have been rising recently, Daily NK has learned.
According to a Daily NK source in North Korea last Thursday,...
North Korean contract manufacturing companies in Sinuiju are increasingly shutting down
Unable to cope with business difficulties owing to the prolonged closure of the Sino-North Korean border, a growing number of workplaces are closing in...
