Tag: sanctions
N. Korea’s green push: Mining and renewable energy expansion face local...
North Korea is ramping up mineral extraction and renewable energy projects in South Pyongan and South Hamgyong provinces, according to multiple sources. This initiative...
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...
2024: A jackpot year for North Korea’s cyber criminals
The dawn of 2025 offers a crucial moment to reflect on how 2024 proved remarkably advantageous for North Korea. The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has...
N. Korea deploys hundreds of intelligence agents to aid Russian war...
Daily NK has learned that North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), which oversees espionage operations in South Korea and abroad, deployed several hundred agents...
N. Korea orders tourism expansion in Chinese-Russian border region
North Korea is pushing to expand its tourism industry in North Hamgyong province to generate foreign currency despite international sanctions.
Last month, the central government's...
North Korean teams hunt for advanced military parts abroad
North Korea dispatched technical teams to Dandong, China and major Russian cities in early November to procure advanced military components like electronic parts and...
N. Korea’s electronics black market: Foreign tech flows despite global ban
Despite the international ban on directly providing, selling, or transferring electronics with military applications to North Korea, foreign-made mobile phones, laptop computers, and smartwatches...
North Korea ships 150 workers through Hyesan to jobs in China
North Korea has dispatched more than 150 workers through Hyesan customs to various industries in China. The workers, who arrived in Jilin province last...
Satellite images reveal progress in hospital projects in Pyongyang
Two large hospitals are being built in the Taedong River District of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. I recently examined progress on the...
Despite UN ban, North Korea dispatches around 150 laborers to China
North Korea sent about 150 laborers to Jilin province, China, in early October in defiance of U.N. sanctions that prohibit sending workers overseas. Most...
