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State Puts Education Upgrade Onus on Parents

In time for the new school semester, which began earlier this month in North Korea, parents of elementary, middle, and high school students have been burdened...

Tragic accident during winter training kills 16, injures 32

Dozens of soldiers participating in a winter training exercise were killed and injured due to faulty equipment in Samsu County, Ryanggang Province, according to sources there.  During...
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N. Korea bolsters combat readiness of elite military unit

On Dec. 7, a special education session was reportedly provided to the “Storm Corps,” an elite military unit tasked with the infiltration of South...
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Source: Restrictions on movements nationwide have intensified

Following the lock down of Kaesong Special City recently, North Korea has moved to enact further restrictions on movements across the entire country in...

Farming Regions in State of Tension

This year, the North Korean authorities are once again emphasizing the need to strive for greater food production as the farming season begins, launching...

$800,000 Spent Preserving Kim Il Sung’s Body

Kim Il Sung was born in Nam-ri, Kohpyong-myon of Daedong, South Pyongan Province on April 15, 1912, and died at the age of 82...

100 Pyongyang Women Join Chinese Shellfish Industry

One hundred women from Pyongyang were dispatched at the beginning of this year to work in the shellfish industry in the Chinese city of Dandong,...

UNDP to Return to North Korea Next Year

The head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) told a press conference yesterday that she expects the UNDP program in North Korea to...

ASIAPRESS: Anti-Kim Content on the Rise

It has been alleged that members of North Korea’s Unhasu Orchestra, who were recently rumoured to be have been executed for the production and...

North Korea, “Rice Reserves for the Military Come First”

Chanchun, China -- The North Korean authorities recently ordered each collective farm to store food provisions in the “No. 2 Storage (rice reserve for...

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