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North Korean food factories are producing confectionery products riddled with contaminants, including hair and thin metal wire, fueling a growing public health controversy and...

North Korea's black market exchange rate for the U.S. dollar broke 70,000 North Korean won for the first time in recorded history in April...

North Korean farmers in parts of North Pyongan province are increasingly abandoning staple food crops on their private plots in favor of higher-value cash...

  North Korea distributed cooking oil ration vouchers to mark the April 15 birthday of founder Kim Il Sung in 2026, but the state-set price...

North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of...

Rising oil prices driven by instability in the Middle East are pushing up fuel costs inside North Korea, with transport fees charged by private...

A longstanding informal labor arrangement in North Korea is taking on a new form, with factory workers now directly distributing factory-made goods and remitting...

North Korea resumed rail and air links with China in late March after a roughly six-year COVID-19 suspension, marking a significant development in North...

A flu outbreak is sweeping parts of North Korea, overwhelming hospitals and forcing parents to seek private doctors as children as young as one...

North Korea's youth weddings are getting smaller, cheaper, and in some cases, nearly invisible. Newlyweds across the country are increasingly skipping one of the...