Tag: covid-19
N. Korea installed facial recognition devices at major train stations during...
In 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the North Korean government sought technologies that could help it better track the movements of...
Young North Koreans are taking pains to avoid military service
Editor's Note: In Sep. 2021, North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly adopted the “Youth Education Guarantee Act,” one of the “big three” oppressive laws passed...
North Korean rice prices see growing regional disparity
As rice prices continue to increase throughout North Korea's markets, regional disparities in prices have grown deeper due, at least in part, to severe...
Why was a N. Korean man executed for transporting medicine from...
In May 2021, when North Korea had a strict COVID-19 quarantine regime in place, the South Pyongan Province Emergency Anti-Epidemic Headquarters ordered the execution...
Hyesan street vendors struggle to make ends meet despite easing crackdowns
Despite the easing of crackdowns, street food vendors in Hyesan are struggling these days because they make so little money, Daily NK has learned.
"Business...
N. Pyongan Province’s trade activities are still under heavy central government...
While North Korea's provinces are now allowed to conduct a certain level of trade thanks to the "20x10 regional development policy," trade remains tightly...
North Korea’s markets see rise in imported feminine hygiene products
The number of feminine hygiene products and other imports from China available in North Korean markets has increased significantly. As a result, prices are...
Behind N. Korea’s lockdown of Kaesong in July 2020
In July 2020, Kaesong was put on lockdown when a North Korean defector crossed the inter-Korean border amid the COVID pandemic.
According to media reports,...
Rodong Sinmun editorial rubs some N. Korean women the wrong way
Some North Korean women have been expressing their discontent with an editorial that ran in the Rodong Sinmun on International Women’s Day (Mar. 8)...
UN appoints first Resident Coordinator in North Korea in three years
On Mar. 1, United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Italian Joe Colombano as the U.N. Resident Coordinator (RC) in the Democratic People's Republic...
