Tag: pyongyang
Pyongyang General Hospital’s construction manager sent to forced labor camp
The senior official in charge of the Pyongyang General Hospital’s construction was sent to a forced labor camp in Sungho-ri in April as punishment...
Around 10% of Pyongyang university students use program to circumvent Big...
About 10% of university students in Pyongyang use the circumvention program “Garakji” to get around the security systems North Korean authorities install on smartphones,...
North Korea seeks new candidates from the provinces for overseas study...
The North Korean government has ordered each of the country's province to select around ten students as candidates for an overseas study program, Daily...
Pyongyang police arrest around 30 people for involvement in massive prostitution...
Pyongyang police recently arrested members of a gang that allegedly built an organized prostitution network in some of North Korea's major cities. The gang...
N. Korean leadership launches corruption probe into Pyongyang’s Mirim Horse Riding...
The Central Committee’s Discipline Inspection Department recently began investigating Pyongyang’s Mirim Horse Riding Club after receiving a report that alleged corruption on the part...
Tracing the real birthplace of North Korea’s Kim Il Sung
An aspect of the life of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung that researchers often find inaccessible is the man’s childhood.
Not only Kim’s behavior...
N. Korea’s new smartphone not yet available in stores
North Korea's new smartphone, the “Madusan,” is not yet available in stores, Daily NK has learned.
NK Economy, a South Korean news website specializing in...
N. Korean loggers die amid push to provide wood for housing...
A number of fatal accidents have recently occurred at logging companies under the Yanggang Province Bureau of Forestry Management, Daily NK has learned.
“Two workers...
How are N. Korean market vendors responding to falling purchasing power...
Amid skyrocketing food prices due to the closure of the country's borders and smuggling routes, North Korea's market vendors have responded to the falling...
Several Pyongyangites subjected to a criticism session for illegal real estate...
Several people who received new homes in Pyongyang’s Songsin and Songhwa areas were recently subjected to an “ideological struggle meeting” after they were caught...
