11 Perish in Train Incident
A Derailment Incident in Hwasung
Yanji, China -- At Yongbahn Station in Hwasung, North Hamkyung, a train on the Rajin-Sariwon Line derailed on December 20th,...
KINU “Business Conglomerates Appearing in North Korea”
Through its publication “North Korea is Changing” the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) highlighted numerous changes and reforms that have occurred in North...
Chairman of a Collective Farm in Mundeuk Publicly Executed
Dandong, China -- An internal source relayed on the December 30th that the managing chairman and the primary party secretary of a collective farm...
Kim Jong Il’s Decline in Public Activities in 2007
Kim Jong Il carried out a total of 86 public activities (depending one which set of number are used) during the year 2007, a...
North Korea Will Emphasize Maintenance Nuclear Deterrence in 2008
It was predicted that North Korea will focus on the revival of the economy to find changes internally and negotiate with the U.S. internationally...
DailyNK’s Persons of the Year 2007
DailyNK’s Men of The Year 2007: Sin Dong Hyuk, the man who escaped the hell of North Korea’s Gulag.
In 2007, there have been...
Country without Taxation but Donation
Changbai, China -- I plan to make my most recent visit to North Korea the last. I don’t plan to set my eyes on...
Lee Myung Bak Needs to Incorporate the Principle of Reciprocity into his Pragmatic Approach
Some concern was raised that President-elect Lee Myung Bak’s policy towards North Korea might have become something similar to the “Sunshine Policy,” if he...
What Happened in North Korea in the Year 2007
International attention in 2007 was mostly focused on the North Korean nuclear issue. Some observers suggested that Kim Jong Il was ill, and thus...
North Korean Youths See Business in Their Futures
Many North Korean teenagers no longer aspire to become party leaders, soldiers, or even to join the party, but instead wish to become “merchants.”...
