North Koreans dismiss domestic broadcasts as propaganda but accept foreign news as fact — yet remain cynical about its ...

North Korea's black market dollar rate broke 70,000 won for the first time in April 2026, sending food and fuel prices to ...

North Korea's Social Safety Forces recruits only from politically approved families, with bribes driving competition for ...

North Korea issued an order on the anniversary of Kim Jong Un's special forces visit, combining a rest day with ideological ...

North Korean farmers in North Pyongan province are abandoning staple crops for tobacco and herbs as market logic reshapes ...

North Korea's WPK directed diplomats to cement nuclear status and build anti-Western alliances with Iran and Russia.

North Korea distributed cooking oil vouchers for Kim Il Sung's birthday, but the 30,000-won state price left many unable to ...

Remittance brokers are extorting defector families using delivery videos as blackmail, threatening to report them to state ...

North Koreans in Hamhung faced pre-dawn cleaning shifts and household fees ahead of Kim Il Sung's April 15 birthday amid ...

After the Ninth Party Congress, Kim Jong Un is sidelining his predecessors' legacies. North Koreans say the shift is ...

A Chongjin factory worker lost a finger in 2026 making insulating paper from scrap wood under North Korea's self-reliance ...

Chinese police in Liaoning and Jilin are summoning entire defector networks for interrogation whenever one individual goes ...