Tag: corruption
North Korea’s poorest youth are choosing brutal labor brigades over life...
Young North Koreans facing poverty and an unrelenting burden of workplace levies are volunteering for the country's much-dreaded labor brigades in growing numbers, choosing...
North Korea’s inns become havens for drug deals as crackdowns intensify
Inns across North Korea are being converted into hubs for drug dealing and use as intensifying state crackdowns push narcotics activity further underground, a...
North Korea cracks down on corrupt prosecutors shielding elite students
North Korea's Supreme Prosecutor's Office issued an emergency order Jan. 19 activating a long-dormant legal provision that allows the replacement of corrupt prosecutors at...
Red neckties create classroom hierarchy as N. Korean parents bribe for...
Parents at some elementary schools in North Hamgyong province are unhappy about the selection of the first batch of students to join the Korean...
North Korean youth spend $345 on power-symbol coats worn by security...
Young North Koreans are shelling out $345 to copy a look that signals power: "gaeteol-shuba," the dog-fur padded coats worn by soldiers, state security...
Nampo factory workers ordered to collect 500kg compost weekly or pay...
A source in Nampo told Daily NK recently that the city "called on factories and enterprises to take charge of collecting agricultural supplies farmers...
Height, songbun, and accordion skills: What it takes to land a...
With North Korea expected to expand its overseas workforce, more young women are taking lessons in singing and musical instruments with the hope of...
North Korea’s secret police crack down on officials’ wives consulting fortune...
The Ministry of State Security has ordered provincial bureaus to monitor nighttime movements and superstitious rituals as families fear personnel changes, with some paying...
Fur and famine: N. Korea’s elite flout luxury bans as workers...
North Korea’s elite women are flaunting luxury fur coats worth millions of won—enough to buy a provincial home or feed a family for years—while...
N. Hamgyong province clamps down on private sale of rice
North Korea has launched a heavy-handed crackdown on private rice sales in North Hamgyong province.
“After the Central Committee ordered a halt to the private...
