Tag: poverty

As residents of the northern highlands of North Hamgyong province suffer from firewood shortages amid freezing winter temperatures, the city of Hoeryong launched a...

As North Korea endures a severe food shortage, desperate North Koreans have been selling their blood, a practice that has surged recently after the...

North Korean money changers have reaped substantial profits from recent currency fluctuations. While money changers have increased their foreign currency assets in a short...

Several cases of infant abandonment have emerged across North Korea in recent months, with babies being discovered in remote rural areas of the country. Multiple...

Smugglers in North Hamgyong province have been working overtime importing accessories from China this summer, driven by surging demand among young people who are...

North Korean schools are openly charging fees to excuse students from farmwork as the country's annual rice transplantation begins. According to a source in South...

North Korea is racing to slap together the final 10,000 apartments of its ambitious five-year housing project in Pyongyang, with state media breathlessly reporting...

A disabled woman in her 40s and her daughter recently died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the North Korean city of Rason, leaving local...

A Kim Il Sung University graduate has surprised his friends by prioritizing career prospects over his long-term romantic relationship, Daily NK has learned. "University students...

A man in North Korea's Musan county died from a police beating after collecting fallen corn from a recently harvested field, sparking local outrage. A...