North Korea propaganda saturates every aspect of public life in the DPRK — from mandatory political study sessions and school curricula to state television, newspapers, and the cult of personality surrounding the Kim family. Daily NK covers North Korea propaganda both as a subject of analysis and as a primary source, monitoring Rodong Sinmun, Korean Central News Agency, and other state media outlets to track the regime’s shifting messaging priorities. Our in-country sources provide crucial ground-level reporting on how ordinary North Koreans receive, interpret, and increasingly resist the state’s ideological messaging.
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North Korea rejects 90% of local party documents in post-congress crackdown
North Korea has launched an unprecedented inspection campaign targeting party documents submitted by local Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) organizations following the Ninth Party...
North Korea electricity conservation drive mocked amid chronic blackouts
North Korea's electricity shortage has become so severe that a state-run campaign urging people to conserve power is drawing open ridicule from the very...
North Korea orders military loyalty lectures ahead of April 25 army...
North Korea's Korean People's Army General Political Bureau (GPB), the military's primary organ for political indoctrination, ordered a series of special lectures across the...
Is Kim Ju Ae really North Korea’s next leader?
Editor's note: This piece was originally published on Daily NK's Korean website in March 2024.
Kim Jong Un's youngest daughter, Kim Ju Ae, has now...
N. Korea orders writers and artists to complete ideological training before...
North Korea has ordered all writers and artists to complete an intensive ideological training course by early April, as the regime moves to tighten...
Post-congress crackdown: North Korea conducts wired broadcast inspections to enforce ideological...
North Korean authorities are conducting household inspections of wired broadcast equipment across multiple provinces following the conclusion of the ninth Workers' Party of Korea...
N. Korea freezes investigations ahead of party congress
North Korea's Ministry of State Security suspended all investigations and custodial proceedings on Feb. 8, ordering provincial bureaus onto emergency footing ahead of the...
N. Korean university holds anti-South Korea lecture ahead of party congress
A North Korean university in Wonsan, Kangwon province, held a mandatory ideological lecture on Feb. 1 instructing faculty and students to view South Korea...
North Korea propaganda truck breaks down during morning rush hour in...
With propaganda campaigns more active than ever throughout North Korea ahead of the Ninth Party Congress, the driver of a loudspeaker truck in Haeju,...
Falling asleep during propaganda now a political offense in South Hamgyong...
So-called documentary study sessions praising the greatness of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are underway in South Hamgyong province, with authorities harshly criticizing...




















