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38 North: New activity at Sohae Satellite Launching Station
Recent commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Tongchang-ri, North Pyongan Province, shows that activity at the launch pad has...
Yonhap: 64 N. Korean defectors received almost USD 300,000 in payments...
Sixty-four of the 67 North Korean defectors who fled to the South in 2022 received a total of KRW 398 million (USD 296,459) as...
N. Korea spreads propaganda about high school students’ act of loyalty
North Korean authorities have been encouraging students to model their behavior on a widely reported act of loyalty by high school students in North...
Russian government exports 1,280 tons of wheat flour to DPRK in...
According to a Russian government agency, Russia shipped over a thousand tons of wheat flour to North Korea in April.
Rosselkhoznadzor, the Russian Federal...
N. Korean trading company under defense ministry preparing to send soldiers...
A trading company affiliated with North Korea’s Ministry of Defense is preparing to deploy soldiers overseas for foreign currency earning activities, Daily NK has...
A look behind North Korea’s efforts to promote itself through social...
The young woman smiles at the camera as she walks through a colorful park. “Spring has come to my hometown,” she says in English,...
S. Pyongan Province orders residents to send supplies to Pyongyang construction...
As construction efforts in Pyongyang's Songsin-Songhwa, Hwasong, and Sopho areas continue, the authorities in South Pyongan Province are forcing people to send supplies to...
N. Korean military to be mobilized in May and June for...
North Korea's General Staff Department recently issued an order to the entire Korean People's Army (KPA) designating May and June as general mobilization periods,...
N. Korean mother and son arrested after nationwide notice put out...
North Korea’s Ministry of State Security recently arrested the descendents of a South Korean prisoner of war who were aimlessly wandering the country by...
N. Korean clothing exhibition melds western designs with “socialist cultural sensibilities”
North Korea’s Ministry of Light Industry caused a stir by offering prize money in the lead-up to the “2023 Spring Women’s Clothes Exhibition,” which...
