Tag: kim jong un
North Korea orders teachers to take malnourished orphans home as state...
The Nampo party committee has ordered teachers at orphan care facilities to personally take malnourished and sick children into their own homes to nurse...
Kim Jong Un’s ideology supplants founding doctrine after ninth party congress
North Korea's state media has stopped referencing "Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism," the ideological framework underpinning the Kim dynasty for decades, following the ninth congress of the Workers'...
Kim rewards parade soldiers with special leave
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rewarded soldiers who marched in the military parade at the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea...
North Korean factory workers ordered to hand over farming tools ahead...
A North Korean factory in Hyesan has ordered each of its workers to submit one farming tool by mid-March under the banner of "rural...
Pyongyang’s post-congress economic push hits raw material wall in Ryanggang
As North Korea's Ninth Party Congress wrapped up with a renewed emphasis on local development, the cabinet issued its first concrete implementing directive on...
The Ninth Party Congress aftermath: What Kim Jong Un’s era really...
North Korea's five-yearly marquee political event, the Ninth WPK Party Congress (Feb. 19-25), has now concluded. Since December of last year, this writer has...
North Korea touts uniform success at Ninth Party Congress, but factory...
North Korea is celebrating the nationwide supply of school uniforms as one of its crowning socialist achievements, but factory workers tasked with producing those...
North Korea’s war on superstition backfires as fortune-telling goes underground
Despite the North Korean authorities' intensified crackdown on superstitious practices, the fortune-telling market is spreading in ever more covert forms. Rather than suppressing demand,...
North Korea’s winter games: Samjiyon as propaganda showcase
Unable to qualify for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games — held Feb. 6-22 in Italy — North Korea opened its 2026 National Winter...
WeChat surveillance ensnares two N. Korean women planning to reach South...
Two North Korean defector women who exchanged WeChat messages about reaching South Korea were arrested by Chinese police in early February and remain in...
