Tag: police
North Korean women no longer want to marry police officers. Here’s...
A telling story has been circulating in South Pyongan province. A daughter of a local People's Committee official was urged by her parents to...
North Korea’s policing problem: corruption, crime, and Kim Jong Un’s reform...
In his policy address to the Supreme People's Assembly on March 23, 2026, Kim Jong Un declared that he would establish "a police system...
Three words humbled a North Korean checkpoint inspector and got him...
A single claim of membership in the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Fund was enough to cut short the career of a North Korean...
Break-ins hit South Hamgyong villages during planting season as police do...
A wave of break-ins is sweeping rural areas of South Hamgyong province in April as thieves exploit the spring planting season to target homes...
North Korea’s new spy agency name evokes South Korea’s Cold War...
North Korea's renaming of its feared political police agency is sending a chill through the population, with many people drawing uncomfortable comparisons to a...
North Korean police resist pressure to adopt orphans under pro-natalist law
North Korean authorities in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province, pressured local police officers late last month to adopt orphans under a pro-natalist law that grants...
North Korean family faces ten years prison as neighbors suspect police...
A North Korean family in Onsong county, North Hamgyong province, is being questioned by police after being caught watching foreign media.
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N. Korean defectors in China lose savings to trusted individuals who...
Female defectors working part-time to support families back home have no recourse when Chinese nationals refuse to return money, unable to use banks or...
N. Korean farmers stand guard day and night as thieves target...
Exhausted farmers in Sakju county, North Pyongan province, are watching their fields around the clock after repeated thefts from family plots, working late into...
North Korea holds public trials for breast augmentation doctors and patients
As growing numbers of North Koreans become curious about breast augmentation surgery, the regime is seeking to quash the practice by holding public trials...
