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North Korean farmer shares his hopes for the New Year
At the 9th Plenary Session of the 8th Party Central Committee in December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un emphasized rural housing construction, rural...
Insiders say North Korea is not in any position to immediately...
After defining the inter-Korean relationship at a year-end party meeting as "between two hostile states," North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stoked war fever...
Two N. Koreans near the border with China share their wishes...
At the Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un listed indicators...
N. Korea races to field strategic weapons before US election in...
North Korea recently raised tensions by announcing the launch of a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) with a new solid-fuel propulsion system. Pyongyang appears...
N. Korean police and state security officials in Pyongsong receive year’s...
North Korean police and state security officers in Pyongsong, South Pyongan Province, recently received a year's worth of food rations. Amid government propaganda about...
North Korean soldiers talk about what they most desire in the...
When a soldier of a military unit stationed in North Hwanghae Province was asked by a Daily NK source in the country what he...
North Korean defectors in China talk about their hardscrabble lives
Some personal horror stories of North Korean defectors who have spent years in China living a socially isolated life in appalling conditions have been...
Pyongyangites forced to eat at Pyongnam Myonok restaurant
The Pyongyang municipal government is taking action after a central government agency ordered it to fill up the seats at the newly expanded and...
Reflections on Jimmy Carter’s attempts to bring peace to the Korean...
This is the year of the "Blue Dragon." What are your wishes for the New Year? I wish for the peaceful reunification of Korea,...
Repatriated North Korean students await decisions on their futures
Hundreds of North Korean students who were repatriated last year are being transferred to domestic universities or assigned to work. The future of the...
