NK Uses Student Informants to Quash Hallyu
In a bid to clamp down on the spread of
cultural content from South Korea, Pyongyang is planting informants among
students, a number of whom have...
UN Committee Adopts Human Rights Resolution
A resolution condemning North Korea’s human rights violations was adopted by a UN committee on Thursday.
The UN Third Committee, one of the six main...
Ban Hopeful of “Appropriate” UNSC Response
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has said that he anticipates the selection of an “appropriate" UN Security Council response to North Korea’s long-range rocket...
The Bad Apple
‘The Bad Apple’ is the 28th cartoon exclusively for Daily NK by Gregory Pence. A creative and talented cartoonist, Pence works with the latest...
Ban Keen to Go North for Peace
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, in Seoul for the annual Seoul Peace Prize ceremony last night, noted again today that “I am considering...
North Korea crafts new legal provisions to punish businesses that fail to regularly pay...
North Korea has reportedly crafted new legal provisions to punish people and businesses who fail to regularly pay their electrical bills. This suggests the...
With Omicron spreading, N. Korea’s coronavirus response headquarters calls for strengthened quarantine efforts
With the world going on alert due to the recent spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, North Korean authorities are focusing all their...
100 Exiled for Foreign Content Exposure
At least 100 Pyongyang
citizens have been internally exiled to remote mountainous areas after searches
revealed they had viewed or were in possession of South Korean...
Control over Jangmadang Causes Trouble Between People and Security Agents
Since the North Korean government announced that it would resume food rationing last October, control over selling cereals in Jangmadang (a kind of black...
