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Man beaten for stealing kimchi as North Korea food crisis deepens
As North Korea's food crisis deepens, theft of kimchi — a dietary staple that families rely on through the winter months — has become...
Even the enforcers are visiting fortune tellers in North Korea, and...
Fortune teller fees across North Korea have surged two to four times their previous levels as a flood of new customers — including officials...
International Women’s Day brings an unusual scene to North Korea: husbands...
Coffee shops in North Korea's Sinuiju were packed with couples on International Women's Day this year as husbands marked the holiday by taking their...
North Korea orders officer unity training after party congress
North Korea's VIII Corps held three-day training sessions for junior officers across its units in early March, ordering them to cultivate closer bonds with...
North Korea’s inns become havens for drug deals as crackdowns intensify
Inns across North Korea are being converted into hubs for drug dealing and use as intensifying state crackdowns push narcotics activity further underground, a...
Beijing-Pyongyang passenger train service set to resume after nearly six years
North Korea and China are set to resume direct passenger rail service between Beijing and Pyongyang on March 12, ending a suspension of nearly...
Post-congress crackdown: North Korea conducts wired broadcast inspections to enforce ideological...
North Korean authorities are conducting household inspections of wired broadcast equipment across multiple provinces following the conclusion of the ninth Workers' Party of Korea...
North Korean factory workers ordered to hand over farming tools ahead...
A North Korean factory in Hyesan has ordered each of its workers to submit one farming tool by mid-March under the banner of "rural...
North Korea’s war on superstition backfires as fortune-telling goes underground
Despite the North Korean authorities' intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand,...
North Korea’s winter games: Samjiyon as propaganda showcase
Unable to qualify for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games — held Feb. 6-22 in Italy — North Korea opened its 2026 National Winter...
