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S. Korean national police agency blames N. Korea for cyberattack on...
The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) is blaming North Korea for a 2021 cyberattack on Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH), one of the South’s...
N. Korean teenage girl’s whereabouts still unknown a month after going...
After a teenage girl in Pyongyang went missing in early April, a month-long police investigation into her whereabouts has yielded no results, a reporting...
N. Korea holds meetings to discuss production quotas with factories, enterprises
Suffering from COVID-19-inspired economic troubles, North Korea recently held meetings to diagnose issues facing the nation’s factories and enterprises and pressed for measures to...
N. Korea mobilizes orphaned teenagers to work on Pyongyang housing project
Amid efforts to build 50,000 housing units in Pyongyang, North Korean authorities have recently mobilized orphans for construction work in the city's Sopo District....
N. Korea’s Prodigy Education Law leads to reorganization of educational curriculum
North Korea has reorganized its educational curriculum after enacting the so-called “Prodigy Education Law,” which is part of a strategy to accelerate national development...
KCNA: First planting of rice for the year starts at Wonhwa...
The first rice planting of the year in North Korea took place on May 10 at the Wonhwa Collective Farm in Pyongwon, South Pyongan...
MOU: North Korea is operating at least ten South Korean-owned factories...
North Korea is apparently operating at least ten South Korean-owned factories in the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) without authorization, Seoul's Ministry of Unification said...
Voice of Korea: Kim Jong Un honors 78th anniversary of the...
Seven months after sending a birthday greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent another message to Moscow...
S. Hamgyong Province mobilizes urban residents for corn planting
Urban residents of South Hamgyong Province are being mobilized to plant corn this spring, Daily NK has learned.
Speaking on condition of anonymity due to...
Plummeting prices and rising exchange rates cause difficulties for N. Korean...
A growing number of North Korean merchants have been suffering losses in the face of plummeting prices for certain goods and a rising KPW-RMB...
