Tag: DPRK
North Korea conducts fourth missile test of 2024
North Korea’s state media reported on Feb. 12 that the regime had managed to develop new controllable shells for a multiple rocket launcher as...
Hyesan residents suffer water shortages
Residents of Hyesan, Yanggang Province, have been suffering from a water shortage, Daily NK has learned.
Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, a...
Some thoughts on Kim Jong Un’s outdated “20×10 regional development policy”
Kim Jong Un recently admitted that his country's regional economy is in a "pitiful state." He confessed that "our party and state are facing...
Sariwon residents dismayed at government-business collusion on construction projects
As the North Korean authorities promote the construction of houses and factories in rural areas, party and government officials have colluded with the donju...
Was Ipo Village really ground zero for N. Korea’s COVID outbreak?
In early June 2022, a man surnamed Choe, the chief of the military medical department of the Second Division of the First Corps -...
Two N. Korean defectors in China arrested for talking about going...
Two North Korean defectors who talked to each other about going to South Korea were recently arrested by the Chinese police in Hebei Province,...
Bicycle theft ring leader to get light punishment due to connections
The leader of a gang of bicycle thieves recently arrested by the police in North Hamgyong Province will likely receive a slap on the...
The tragic story of a North Korean “defector hunter”
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...
N. Korean military units ordered to modernize record-keeping system for training
North Korea's military leadership recently ordered all units to modernize their combat training record-keeping system by making records daily instead of monthly and placing...
Behind the idyllic-looking lives of North Korea’s nuclear weapons researchers
After announcing plans to upgrade North Korea's nuclear arsenal at the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea in early 2021, Kim Jong...
