Tag: restrictions
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 Korean agents pressure Chinese phone users as quarterly reviews loom
State security agents in North Korea's border region are ramping up efforts to catch Chinese mobile phone users ahead of their upcoming quarterly performance...
N. Korea youth defy state crackdowns with bold fashion, hairstyle trends
North Korean authorities have intensified crackdowns on young people's clothing and hairstyles since enacting the "Youth Education Guarantee Act," but North Korea's youth —...
N. Korea cracks down on booming private bus industry
North Korean authorities have launched a major crackdown on illegal bus operations as the industry becomes increasingly lucrative.
According to a Pyongyang source recently, emergency...
N. Korea renames DMZ permits, expands travel rights for capital residents
North Korea has renamed its "front line approval number" to "national border approval number" for permits required to enter regions along the inter-Korean frontier,...
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. Korea’s security ministry targets officials in China-linked businesses
North Korea’s Ministry of State Security ordered its branches in North Pyongan province and other China-North Korea border areas to conduct thorough investigations of...
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...
“Better safe than sorry”: N. Koreans avoid phone features despite lifted...
North Koreans with mobile phones are deliberately avoiding video calls amid heightened government surveillance. Mobile users are shunning features like video calling and file...
N. Korean street vendors free from crackdowns but trapped by economics
North Korea has recently eased restrictions on street vendors, but they continue to face hardships. The latest challenge stems from rising currency exchange rates,...
