Tag: relationships
Masters of the middle: N. Korea’s calculated dance between global powers
As the United States grapples with potential shifts in its foreign policy, North Korea's deepening relationships with Russia and China have fundamentally altered the...
N. Korea intensifies crackdown on unmarried couples living together
North Korean authorities have launched an aggressive campaign against unmarried couples living together, declaring such arrangements a symptom of "decadent capitalist culture." This crackdown...
N. Korean youth defy marriage norms, opt for prohibited cohabitation
An increasing number of young North Koreans are choosing to live together before marriage, despite this being prohibited behavior that carries legal consequences, Daily...
Man arrested for posing as nephew of N. Korean foreign minister...
A man in his 30s was recently arrested by the Ministry of State Security for scamming people out of money by pretending to be...
Defector community in China outraged after woman fakes illness to fund...
A North Korean defector in Shenyang, China, has sparked outrage in the defector community after receiving financial assistance for a fabricated illness. Fellow defectors...
Student beaten, faces expulsion over alleged affair with professor
A female first-year student at a college in Sinuiju was beaten by a professor's wife for having an inappropriate relationship with the professor and...
N. Korean official sacked over Korean Children’s Union event
A guidance officer of the Korean Children's Union at a school in Sariwon has been dismissed over issues related to last month's event in...
N. Korean cargo carriers face tough time making profits despite rise...
North Korea's cargo carriers are getting more work as the volume of distribution in the country has increased with the end of COVID-19. However,...
N. Korean security officials increasingly turn to extortion of money changers,...
North Korean security officials in the China-North Korea border region are increasingly turning to extortion of money changers and remittance brokers to make money,...
N. Korean woman assaulted for refusing to date poverty-stricken man
On Jan. 20, a Hamhung man in his twenties beat up a woman who refused to go out with him, a source in South...
