North Korean police in Hyesan have recently orchestrated a clampdown on money changers who trade foreign currency on the ...

In South Hwanghae province, there’s a rumor that “disaster will strike your family if you don’t move your ancestor’s grave by ...

Many North Korean students take on odd jobs such as making coal briquettes or transporting their parents’ market goods due to hardships at home.

North Korea’s special amnesty this year included families of so-called “war heroes” deployed to fight in Russia’s war against ...

Young North Korean women are increasingly turning to light-colored nail polish as a form of “modest adornment” that allows ...

As business slows at North Korea’s marketplaces, people are complaining about being constantly called up for mandatory ...

Several North Koreans who had resorted to gold mining as a last resort in the face of economic difficulties recently died ...

North Korea recently scrapped its system of preliminary examinations—a legal procedure the country maintained for roughly 70 ...

North Korea has begun activities to once again imprint the regime’s policy of “self-reliance,” ordering security and ...

The Chinese government freed the Hongxiang Group’s major executives after criminally punishing them. They kept a low profile afterwards, but have recently returned to trade with North Korea.

China Technical Collaboration Center” immediately after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited Beijing early last month.

Soldiers of the 25th Brigade of North Korea’s border guard based in Ryanggang province have gone on a rampage of crop theft this harvest season.