Tag: younger generation
N. Korean leadership seminar orders new focus on Kim’s teachings
North Korea's premier party institution, the Pyongyang Central Cadres Training School, recently conducted a seminar focused on implementing Kim Jong Un's latest political theories...
Forbidden melodies: Two young North Korean K-pop listeners sent to prison
In early September, two 15-year-old North Korean boys were sent to a political prison camp for listening to K-pop, according to a source in...
How to counter N. Korea’s garbage balloon campaign
Since late May, North Korea has been launching balloons filled with fecal matter into South Korea, an act both irrational and inhumane. The South...
N. Korea’s monitoring of political tendencies won’t work
In late April, North Korea’s ruling party ordered all organizations to place the highest priority on monitoring trends among the general public, and among...
Young N. Koreans question why the state demands absolute loyalty
North Korea organized a second training seminar for party officials in charge of propaganda at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang from Apr....
Young North Koreans are taking pains to avoid military service
Editor's Note: In Sep. 2021, North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly adopted the “Youth Education Guarantee Act,” one of the “big three” oppressive laws passed...
Ahead of Kim Il Sung’s birthday, N. Korea intensifies anti-American education...
Ahead of the Day of the Sun (Apr. 15, a holiday celebrating the birthday of Kim Il Sung), North Korea has ordered that the...
The impact of Kim Jong Un’s order in late 2020 to...
Before North Korea's government passed the "Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act" in December 2020, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued an order...
More and more young N. Koreans are living together before marriage
The number of young North Koreans living together before marriage is on the rise, Daily NK has learned.
“The percentage of young people who live...
Two N. Korean university students given 15 years in prison for...
In late November, two North Korean university students in Nampo received a public trial for watching illegal South Korean movies and were sentenced to...
