Tag: lockdown
Nampo’s 2021 lockdown led to tragedy for many people
In early 2020, as North Korea implemented a maritime lockdown in response to COVID-19, the port city of Nampo suffered a steep drop in...
The impact of N. Korea’s harsh lockdown of Onsong County in...
In the summer of 2022, North Korean authorities imposed a strict lockdown in Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, to prevent the spread of the...
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...
