Tag: punishment
North Korean police use undercover spies to entrap merchants in foreign...
North Korea is intensifying crackdowns on person-to-person foreign currency transactions under its foreign exchange control law, with police in Sinuiju, North Pyongan province, recently...
Wonsan’s young workers choose bicycle deliveries over state assignments despite forced...
The Socialist Patriotic Youth League has ordered immediate investigations and forced labor punishments for members skipping assigned work to pursue personal business in Wonsan's...
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...
N. Korean teens face public humiliation for painting each other’s nails...
A group of Pyongyang teenagers were recently hauled before a public struggle session for painting their nails.
A source in Pyongyang told Daily NK that...
Fear of purges spreads as North Korea targets veteran China traders
North Korea is probing trading companies in North Pyongan province in charge of trade with China. The move appears aimed at tightening the regime's...
Disabled N. Korean soldiers beat woman on train over luggage dispute
Two disabled North Korean soldiers brutally beat a woman in her 40s on a train after she refused to move her luggage for them....
N. Korean agents punished over Russia corruption
Two North Korean state security agents, Han Kwang Jin and Song Myong Nam, have been demoted and transferred after being recalled from Russia amid...
N. Korea executes 23 defense workers in brutal crackdown
North Korea's state security department has taken an ultra-hardline stance against "counterrevolutionary acts" at munitions factories in Jagang province earlier this year.
Families of security...
N. Korea orders probe into its own harsh punishments
North Korea has issued a special order to launch full-scale reinvestigations of unfair and cruel punishments from the Unified Command on Non-Socialist and Anti-Socialist...
N. Koreans criticize mass arrests after destroyer launch disaster
As North Korea continues arresting officials responsible for the failed launch of a new destroyer at Chongjin Shipyard, some North Koreans are criticizing the...
