Tag: rations
North Korean students mobilized to farm school land as rations dry...
North Korean students have barely settled into the new school year before being pulled out of class to expand school farmland plots, with parents...
North Korea fuel prices surge 20% as Iran war squeezes oil...
North Korea's market prices have surged for the second consecutive month, with fuel costs leading the way as gasoline and diesel prices each jumped...
Winter warfare preparations expose North Korea’s chronic military supply crisis
North Korea's II Corps has ordered nutritious food for soldiers ahead of winter exercises beginning Dec. 1, but the directive has sparked complaints from...
Fur and famine: N. Korea’s elite flout luxury bans as workers...
North Korea’s elite women are flaunting luxury fur coats worth millions of won—enough to buy a provincial home or feed a family for years—while...
North Korea launches app-based digital grain voucher system to control distribution
North Korea is launching an app-based system for rice distribution, with grain vouchers added to an electronic payment app on a trial basis in...
N. Korean rice prices stabilize at record highs
North Korean rice prices have settled around 12,000 won per kilogram after breaking the 10,000 won barrier for the first time on record. Meanwhile,...
Pay to stay: N. Korean schools sell farmwork exemptions to students
North Korean schools are openly charging fees to excuse students from farmwork as the country's annual rice transplantation begins.
According to a source in South...
N. Korean officials face rare worker criticism at reclamation site
Workers at a land reclamation site in North Korea's Yeonbaek district of South Hwanghae province held an unusual meeting where they openly criticized officials.
"In...
Hunger drives N. Korean veterans to theft as support system fails
The Jagang provincial police are responding swiftly to poverty-related crimes committed by recently discharged military officers and have reported the matter to the provincial...
N. Korean officials show unprecedented effort during ‘Friday labor’ sessions
The behavior of North Korean officials has noticeably shifted since authorities began emphasizing the importance of "Friday labor" at central government agencies.
"Before the March...
