Post-congress crackdown: North Korea conducts wired broadcast inspections to enforce ideological compliance
North Korean authorities are conducting household inspections of wired broadcast equipment across multiple provinces following the conclusion of the ninth Workers' Party of Korea...
Pyongyang’s post-congress economic push hits raw material wall in Ryanggang
As North Korea's Ninth Party Congress wrapped up with a renewed emphasis on local development, the cabinet issued its first concrete implementing directive on...
North Korea touts uniform success at Ninth Party Congress, but factory workers say otherwise
North Korea is celebrating the nationwide supply of school uniforms as one of its crowning socialist achievements, but factory workers tasked with producing those...
N. Korea freezes investigations ahead of party congress
North Korea's Ministry of State Security suspended all investigations and custodial proceedings on Feb. 8, ordering provincial bureaus onto emergency footing ahead of the...
N. Korean university holds anti-South Korea lecture ahead of party congress
A North Korean university in Wonsan, Kangwon province, held a mandatory ideological lecture on Feb. 1 instructing faculty and students to view South Korea...
North Korean police intensify home visits and patrols ahead of party congress
Police boxes in cities and counties throughout North Hamgyong province, including Hoeryong, have intensified public controls following provincial police orders to ensure a year...
North Korean youth “see party congress slogans in dreams” as weekly lectures intensify
North Korea has dramatically increased the frequency of ideological indoctrination lectures for young people ahead of the Ninth Party Congress. However, young people are...
Kim Jong Un’s frequent Sinuiju visits force Chinese phone users into hiding as crackdowns...
Frequent visits by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to North Korea's largest greenhouse farm, which was built in a section of Sinuiju that...
North Korean workers walk out on Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s speech demanding more...
North Korean workers were frustrated with the speech national leader Kim Jong Un delivered in Pyongyang on New Year's Day. The speech was distributed...
N. Korea limits Pyongyang residency for fallen soldiers’ families amid loyalty checks
North Korea plans to grant Pyongyang residency to families of soldiers killed fighting in Russia, but it's strictly limiting the privilege to immediate relatives...
