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Investigation: North Korea extends three repressive laws to workers abroad

North Korea is strictly enforcing three recently enacted laws on its citizens working abroad: the Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Law, the Youth Education...

Prosecutors, police sweep North Korean retreats in vice crackdown

North Korean authorities have launched nationwide inspections of retreats and sanatoriums, targeting drug use and prostitution. A source in North Hamgyong province told Daily...

Father-son defection attempt ends in arrest at Yalu River

A father and son were caught by border guards trying to cross the Yalu River into China from Uiju county, North Pyongan province. The...

Fatal affair exposes food-for-favors system in N. Korean military

A company commander of North Korea's 27th Brigade border guard unit attacked his wife and a non-commissioned officer with a knife after discovering their...

N. Korea’s Decree 1013: Kim’s green light for tougher punishments of...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has approved Decree 1013, a new directive that imposes harsher penalties on repeat offenders, following a proposal from...

Pyongyang escalates crackdown on overseas communication

North Korean authorities have intensified their crackdown on cross-border communications, threatening residents in border regions with reeducation camp sentences for any overseas phone calls....

N. Korean military report exposes foreign media problem, sparks harsh punishments

The Military Security Command, the North Korean military's counterintelligence agency, has circulated a report detailing cases of illegal handling of foreign media within the...

Rason’s “non-socialist” housing probe met with public skepticism

Prosecutors in Rason have launched a month-long inspection to identify owners of multiple homes, designating such ownership as "non-socialist." However, local residents are dismissing...

Forbidden melodies: Two young North Korean K-pop listeners sent to prison

In early September, two 15-year-old North Korean boys were sent to a political prison camp for listening to K-pop, according to a source in...

N. Korean soldiers arrested after Kim Jong Un’s special forces visit

Over a dozen soldiers involved in a military exercise during Kim Jong Un's visit to a special forces base last month were later arrested,...

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