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North Korea’s poorest youth are choosing brutal labor brigades over life...
Young North Koreans facing poverty and an unrelenting burden of workplace levies are volunteering for the country's much-dreaded labor brigades in growing numbers, choosing...
North Korea holds open party meeting to force light industry results...
North Pyongan province's party committee has summoned local commercial and light industry officials to a two-night, three-day open party general meeting in Sinuiju, pressing...
North Korea targets currency traders with undercover operatives as won crisis...
North Korea has drawn its sharpest response yet to a currency crisis, deploying undercover security cadets and newly assigned officers to crack down on...
North Korea’s new school stalls draw student fans but leave vendors...
Small vendor stalls have begun appearing outside schools in parts of North Korea, offering students and teachers a convenient place to buy snacks, stationery,...
N. Korean students face more ideology sessions as regime tightens grip...
North Korean schools have sharply increased mandatory political study sessions for students at all levels following the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of...
Man beaten for stealing kimchi as North Korea food crisis deepens
As North Korea's food crisis deepens, theft of kimchi — a dietary staple that families rely on through the winter months — has become...
International Women’s Day brings an unusual scene to North Korea: husbands...
Coffee shops in North Korea's Sinuiju were packed with couples on International Women's Day this year as husbands marked the holiday by taking their...
Post-congress crackdown: North Korea conducts wired broadcast inspections to enforce ideological...
North Korean authorities are conducting household inspections of wired broadcast equipment across multiple provinces following the conclusion of the ninth Workers' Party of Korea...
North Korean youth are skipping political events, and the regime is...
Attendance at political events and propaganda gatherings inside North Korea has been falling, and the regime appears to be taking notice. A source in...
North Korea intensifies jangmadang crackdown, seizing household goods for state stores
North Korean authorities have sharply escalated inspections of jangmadang markets in Hamhung city, seizing domestically produced household goods from vendors and routing them into...
