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In March, N. Korea ordered PCR tests for 10,000 people in...
In March, North Korean authorities ordered PCR tests for 10,000 people in six major areas, including Pyongyang, Daily NK has learned.
Daily NK recently obtained...
Rumors circulate once again that Hyesan customs house will open in...
Rumors are once again circulating that the customs house in Hyesan will open from May, Daily NK has learned.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a...
How loyal are N. Korean officials to Kim Jong Un?
Jang Song Taek was executed around ten years ago, just one year after Kim Jong Un assumed power in North Korea.
Jang, who was the...
N. Korea’s female soldiers still face sexual harassment, even rape, in...
In January of this year, Saturday lecture materials for North Korean military officers included mention of a gang rape of a female soldier by...
Why is the North Korean won – Chinese yuan exchange rate...
The Chinese yuan is currently trading at KPW 1,300 in the border regions of North Hamgyong Province and Yanggang Province, Daily NK has learned.
“Since...
Lifting the veil on a Ministry of State Security crackdown on...
In early October 2022, North Korea’s Ministry of State Security ordered its agents in Shenyang to “quickly recall and make an example out of...
Kim Il Sung University professor at the center of an admissions...
After bribing a Kim Il Sung University professor with a grand piano to get their child into the school, the child's parents had a...
N. Korea reforms education systems at two schools for “revolutionary children”
North Korea is reforming the educational systems at Red Flag Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School, as well as introducing teacher...
N. Korean high schoolers encounter flasher on the way to clean...
Two North Korean high school girls in Hyesan remain traumatized after encountering a male flasher as they headed to clean statues of Kim Il...
N. Hamgyong Province’s food prices continue to fall amid expansion in...
Amid an expansion in North Korea-China trade, prices for food in Chongjin and Hoeryong's markets are continuing to fall, with the prices of some...
