Tag: communications
Kim Jong Un orders creation of unified satellite intelligence command system
Kim Jong Un has ordered North Korea's military to build an integrated command system linking reconnaissance satellite data with the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB),...
North Korean app database shows stark medical divide between capital and...
An analysis of a database from a North Korean smartphone application shows that Pyongyang has far more medical facilities than anywhere else in the...
N. Korean smartphone app evolved from simple ID tool to permanent...
Daily NK has obtained both the original and upgraded versions of an app North Korea uses to identify mobile phone users. A comparison of...
China plans major aid initiative as N. Korea relations warm
China appears to be moving toward providing comprehensive "strategic support" to North Korea as the two countries' relationship shows signs of warming.
According to a...
Families of N. Korean soldiers in Russia left to wonder if...
When "A," a North Pyongan province woman, first heard her son in the military had been deployed to Russia, she assumed he was just...
N. Korea uses Moscow security meeting to advance intelligence cooperation with...
North Korea used the recent 13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues in Moscow as a strategic opportunity to advance working-level intelligence...
N. Korean security officials extort money from defectors’ families
Security officials in North Korea's northern border city of Hoeryong are pressuring families of defectors to confess receiving money from relatives abroad and surrender...
N. Korea orders military-wide upgrade of secret communications system
North Korea's Military Security Command has ordered its military corps-level security departments to implement advanced surveillance systems starting January 2024 to strengthen management of...
N. Korea intensifies surveillance of Chinese phone users along border
North Korea has intensified its crackdown on Chinese mobile phones as part of efforts to tighten internal controls by limiting communication with the outside...
N. Korea arrests former trade official in Chinese phone crackdown
North Korean authorities are intensifying crackdowns on Chinese-made mobile phones, which serve as a crucial channel for outside information entering the country and internal...
