Tag: crackdowns

Sinuiju authorities are once again intensifying crackdowns on young people who use the South Korean language or wear South Korean-style clothing, Daily NK has...

Two North Korean defectors who talked to each other about going to South Korea were recently arrested by the Chinese police in Hebei Province,...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Korean in November 2021.  In early November 2012, North Korea's Ministry of State Security (MSS) made it...

A change in re-education camp regulations last year was aimed at reducing the number of deaths in the camps by returning inmates to society...

Some North Korean trade officials in China have recently been replaced amid increased monitoring of their mobile phones, including the use of VPNs, Daily...

North Hamgyong Province's municipal and county-level party committees are intensifying ideological crackdowns against young people as the end-of-the-year approaches, Daily NK has learned.  “Even if...

The commerce department of Pyongsong's people’s committee recently launched year-end financial inspections of local markets, Daily NK has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity for...

Room 79 of the General Political Bureau's Publishing Censorship Department recently initiated a sweeping crackdown on what it calls the “invasion of foreign culture"...

In early October, the North Pyongan Province branch of North Korea's state security agency conducted surprise raids on the homes of people suspected of...

After the Ministry of State Security recently announced the start of a major crackdown on the users of illegal foreign cell phones, security agents...