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N. Korean military ordered to implement videoconferencing system on trial basis
Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula in early 2024, North Korea's leadership recently ordered the commands of all armed forces to introduce a...
Kim Jong Un reopens political prison camp to house political enemies
A political prison camp originally thought to have been closed has been reopened since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took power in 2011....
Possible COVID-19 cases surge in North Korea near border with China
Recently, the number of people complaining of symptoms associated with COVID-19 has risen sharply in several North Korean regions along the border with China....
Why is N. Korea excluding Chagang Province-based soldiers from overseas work?
North Korea's Ministry of Defense recently ordered military-affiliated trading companies that recruit soldiers for overseas postings to exclude those from Chagang Province as candidates,...
N. Korea replaces some trade officials in China amid intensifying surveillance...
Some North Korean trade officials in China have recently been replaced amid increased monitoring of their mobile phones, including the use of VPNs, Daily...
N. Korean bank officials arrested on charges of corruption
North Korea's Central Public Prosecutors Office recently arrested officials from a national commercial bank and a regional bank on corruption charges, Daily NK has...
Poverty-stricken N. Korean woman forced to give up newborn for adoption
A woman who recently gave birth at a maternity center in Yanggang Province immediately put the baby up for adoption, a source in the...
N. Korea’s redefining of inter-Korean relationship causes concern inside the country
At a year-end party meeting, North Korea's leadership declared a shift in the relationship between the two Koreas as one between two enemy states....
Kim Jong Un’s birthday still unmentioned in N. Korea’s 2024 calendars
The birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was not designated a holiday in three 2024 calendars recently obtained by Daily NK.
The three...
N. Koreans start the new year with the obligatory “manure collection...
North Koreans are once again engaged in their first "battle" of the new year: the collection of manure for use as fertilizer.
"As in past...
