Tag: surveillance
Satellite analysis reveals Kim Jong Un’s hidden armored train stations
Kim Jong Un does not travel like other heads of state. He moves through North Korea aboard a "rolling fortress" — an armored train...
North Korea’s donju hand over rice and cash to the state...
North Korean authorities are pressuring wealthy private traders known as donju — loosely translated as "masters of money," referring to a class of entrepreneurs...
North Korea’s AFC women’s title sparks curiosity about South Korea at...
News of North Korea's Naegohyang women's football club winning the AFC Women's Champions League on South Korean soil has become a major talking point...
North Korea orders shoot-to-kill at border, coordinates defector tracking with China
North Korea's State Information Bureau, the country's primary domestic intelligence agency formerly known as the Ministry of State Security, has issued sweeping new directives...
North Korean defectors in China alarmed as Kuaishou messages reach police
Chinese authorities are monitoring North Korean defectors through Kuaishou, a popular Chinese short-video and messaging platform, raising alarm among defectors hiding in China.
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China recruits North Korean defectors as informants to trap escape brokers
Chinese police are recruiting North Korean defectors living in China as informants and using them to infiltrate defector escape networks, leading to the arrest...
North Korea replaces all foreign student dormitory staff at Kim Il...
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) central committee ordered a full replacement of staff managing foreign student dormitories at Kim Il Sung...
Pyongyang targets software developers in crackdown on unauthorized programs
North Korea gathered more than 30 software developers in Pyongyang in mid-April 2026 to take part in what authorities billed as a technical training...
North Korea’s policing problem: corruption, crime, and Kim Jong Un’s reform...
In his policy address to the Supreme People's Assembly on March 23, 2026, Kim Jong Un declared that he would establish "a police system...
North Korea dispatches central party inspectors to Rason customs facility
A Workers' Party of Korea central committee inspection team descended without warning on the Rason Quarantine and Inspection Station in late April 2026, conducting...
