Tag: crime

A man in his 60s was beaten to death in Kilju County, North Hamgyong Province, in mid-December, Daily NK has learned. A source in North...

In early October, North Korea dispatched special teams made up of party cadres to collective farms across the country as part of efforts to...

Three soldiers in Yanggang Province were recently beaten by a local disciplinary patrol while allegedly burglarizing homes to obtain pork to eat on “Victory...

Pyongyang police recently arrested members of a gang that allegedly built an organized prostitution network in some of North Korea's major cities. The gang...

A recent report from inside North Korea suggests that a growing number of the country’s citizens are manufacturing incidents and accidents for compensation money.  In...

Multiple Daily NK sources have reported that the Central Committee’s Justice Department recently presented a “new corrections policy” to the Ministry of Social Security’s...

The daughter of a high-ranking cadre has been publicly executed for watching and distributing South Korean films, soap operas, and entertainment programs. North Korea...

Several women in Pyongyang have been murdered in recent weeks by unidentified assailants who may have been trying to steal money to stave off...

The revelation that the ringleaders behind a gold smuggling ring were part of a foreign currency-earning company operated by the Ministry of State Security...

North Korean authorities are planning to carry out a special pardon of prisoners in October and the list of pardonees may include those who...