Kimchaek Steel Works Management in Trouble
North Korean Intellectuals’ Solidarity (NKIS), citing a North Korean source, reported on the 3rd that factory officials at the Kimchaek Iron and Steel Complex,...
Pyongyang boosts state collection of electricity fees
North Korean authorities recently implemented an experimental measure in Pyongyang aimed at increasing the state’s collection of electricity fees to pay for the opening...
Authorities in North Hamgyong Province blamed for electrocutions
A number of electrical transmission poles have recently collapsed in North Korea due to torrential rain, resulting in the fatal electrocutions of a child...
N. Pyongan Province trading companies under government probe
The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea has been conducting intensive inspections of trading companies in North Pyongan Province.
Speaking on condition of...
State orders farmers to supply more food to the military
The North Korean authorities have ordered collective farms to supply all of the planned food quotas to the military following a failure by the...
KIC Life Receding as Workers Withdrawn
The North Korean authorities are taking some former Kaesong Industrial Complex laborers and their families out of the Kaesong region and sending them back...
50 NSA Agents Cross Sino-NK Border at Sanhe
More than 50 agents from the National Security Agency entered China via the border crossing at Hoiryeong in North Hamkyung Province and Sanhe, China...
North Korean man arrested for communicating with family member in China
A family member of a North Korean defector was recently arrested in the Sino-North Korean border region, Daily NK sources have reported.
“A 20-year-old living...
Children of struggling North Korean coal miners hauling coal to supplement family earnings
A coal transport truck and a 'servi-cha' loaded with laborers cross paths on a road near the Musan Mine in North Hamgyong Province. Image: Daily NK...
Marginal improvement at ‘kyohwaso’ amid international pressure
A continual number of deaths within North
Korea’s kyohwaso from torture
and beatings has prompted leader Kim Jong Un to order penalization of security officials...
