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Daily NK Snapshots from North Korea – Week of March 13,...
Daily NK Snapshots are synopses of select articles from our Korean website. Snapshots provide a window into Daily NK’s reporting and into everyday life and...
New N. Korean video condemns street smokers and outdoor boozers
North Korea has released an ideological video that seeks to indoctrinate the public about the importance of establishing a “socialist lifestyle.” The video condemns...
Tanchon woman rebuked by city party committee after asking for help...
A resident of Tanchon was recently kicked out of the city's party committee building after pleading with committee cadres to help feed her children,...
CIA World Factbook: North Korean men must serve up to 10...
A recently updated version of the US Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook now says that North Korean men must serve up to 10 years...
Daily NK acquires full text of the anti-reactionary thought law
Daily NK is the first news outlet to have acquired the full text of the “Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act of the Democratic...
Three Revolutions Team member arrested for spreading “reactionary thought and culture”
A Three Revolutions Team member at a logging camp in Pungso County, Yanggang Province, was arrested on Mar. 11 for “infecting the work team...
Some of N. Korea’s military officers fail to receive enough food...
North Korea’s food shortages are so serious that the rations of some military officers have been slashed, Daily NK has learned.
According to a Daily...
N. Korean family in Rason rumored to have made soup out...
Food shortages appear to be growing more severe for people in the city of Rason, home of North Korea’s first free economic zone, Daily...
N. Korean state security officers use remittance brokers to take money...
North Korean state security officers have recently been using remittance brokers to squeeze money out of the families of defectors, a reporting partner in...
[Interview] One Chinese businessman’s view of doing business inside North Korea
The land route between Hunchun and Najin-Sonbong was recently reopened after being closed for close to three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
