Tag: workers’ party of korea
North Korea orders purge of officials with any ties to reunification
North Korea has intensified its ideological crackdown following the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), with the WPK Secretariat ordering security...
Political bloodlines drive North Korea’s Social Safety Forces recruitment
North Korea's annual military conscription season is now underway, and the Social Safety Forces — the country's internal security force, roughly equivalent to South...
North Korea vows new 10-year forest push, but satellite data reveals...
North Korea announced a second 10-year reforestation campaign in April 2026, pledging to restore degraded forests across the country through 2035 — but satellite...
North Korean farmers ditch food crops for cash crops as market...
North Korean farmers in parts of North Pyongan province are increasingly abandoning staple food crops on their private plots in favor of higher-value cash...
Kim Jong Un marks special forces anniversary with rest order and...
North Korea issued a special order to its special operations forces on April 3, 2026, marking the first anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un's...
North Korea orders diplomats to lock in nuclear status, pursue multipolar...
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) issued a classified directive to senior foreign ministry officials in early April 2026 ordering them to...
Kim Jong Un sidelines his predecessors in sweeping cult of personality...
North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of...
South Korea’s rushed embrace of Kim Jong Un’s ‘two-state theory’ is...
North Korea's Kim Jong Un first introduced the concept of two hostile states in late 2023, framing South Korea as the country's foremost enemy....
North Korean factories turn workers into salespeople under revamped informal labor...
A longstanding informal labor arrangement in North Korea is taking on a new form, with factory workers now directly distributing factory-made goods and remitting...
North Koreans mock ‘second’ reforestation drive: ‘When did the first one...
North Korea is pushing a nationwide tree-planting drive under the banner of its "Second Reforestation Project," but on the ground in South Hamgyong province...
