1.0North Korea News — Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026https://www.dailynk.com/englishLee Sung Jinhttps://www.dailynk.com/english/author/lee-sung-jin/Good Neighborhoods, Bad Jangmadangrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="wESdQ0cGZP"><a href="https://www.dailynk.com/english/good-neighborhoods-bad-jangmadang/">Good Neighborhoods, Bad Jangmadang</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.dailynk.com/english/good-neighborhoods-bad-jangmadang/embed/#?secret=wESdQ0cGZP" width="600" height="338" title="“Good Neighborhoods, Bad Jangmadang” — North Korea News — Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026" data-secret="wESdQ0cGZP" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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https://www.dailynk.com/english/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2008/01/DNKF00003104_List.jpg14093[imText1]In North Korea, there are few good traditions left, except for good neighborhoods. Even though, these days, food is always scarce, intimacy among neighborhoods remains. Nonetheless, in the jangmadang (markets), there are fistfights almost every day. North Korea’s private markets are similar to those in China. Anything can be bought with money. Yet strict regulation […]