Tag: lockdown
North Korean rice prices see growing regional disparity
As rice prices continue to increase throughout North Korea's markets, regional disparities in prices have grown deeper due, at least in part, to severe...
Behind N. Korea’s lockdown of Kaesong in July 2020
In July 2020, Kaesong was put on lockdown when a North Korean defector crossed the inter-Korean border amid the COVID pandemic.
According to media reports,...
What’s behind the decline in the incomes of market sellers?
The incomes of North Korean market sellers continue to decline even though trade with China and Russia has partially resumed with the easing of...
Yanggang Province lockdown sparked by fever cases lifted on Monday
A lockdown recently ordered for Yanggang Province after fever cases emerged in the region was fully lifted on Aug. 7, Daily NK has learned.
“The...
Pence Cartoon: “Black Bloc Bullocks”
Explanatory Note: The North Korean government has sought to jump-start the country’s moribund economy following a protracted covid lockdown. Doubling down on efforts to...
Ten days after going into lockdown, Hyesan loosens restrictions on movement
Hyesan authorities recently loosened restrictions on movement in the city, ten days after the administrative center of Yanggang Province was put under lockdown due...
Facing a surge in COVID-19 cases, Sinuiju was locked down for...
COVID-19 appears to be spreading through North Korea at a frightening speed. Daily NK recently learned from its network of sources in the country...
Pence Cartoon: “Old News”
Kim Jong Un recently admitted to an outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, more than two years after the start of the pandemic and...
North Korea intensifies battle against “anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior”
North Korean authorities have recently upped their war on “anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior” using the so-called “Unified Command 82.”
This suggests that the authorities have...
Around 2,000 Storm Corps troops deployed to Hyesan to enforce lockdown
Daily NK has learned that an additional 2,000 troops of the so-called Storm Corps have been deployed to the city of Hyesan, Yanggang Province,...
