Tag: public health

North Korea is working to keep soldiers wounded in combat in Russia out of the public eye, spreading them across remote military hospitals and...

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 Korea has launched a "100-day battle of loyalty" to boost coal production in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Workers' Party's founding,...

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...

A skin disease outbreak in parts of North Pyongan province has prompted provincial authorities to launch emergency quarantine and treatment measures. According to a Daily...

North Korea promotes its free healthcare system as proof of socialism's superiority, but North Koreans say what they actually experience isn't "free healthcare" but...

Injuries during Red Youth Guard entry training in South Hamgyong province are going untreated, a source in North Korea told Daily NK recently. In early...

A health supplement revolution is quietly taking hold among North Korea's elite. Disillusioned with counterfeit "medicines from Ponghwa" that people mockingly call "rabbit dung,"...

The Ministry of Social Security recently ordered an emergency crackdown after medical complications from illegal breast augmentation surgeries in Pyongyang began surging. "Medical complications from...

An analysis of a database from a North Korean smartphone application shows that Pyongyang has far more medical facilities than anywhere else in the...