General markets still dominate North Korean shopping, but grain stores, private shops and phone orders are claiming a growing ...

Satellite radar shows a wastewater pond below the Pyongsan uranium plant swelling and shrinking in 2026, renewing Yesong ...

Workers at the Pukchang power plant must pay for mandatory Party Foundation Day tours, and managers warn winter output could ...

Hyesan customs reopened Oct. 12 after China’s National Day closure, bringing winter clothing samples and relief to cart ...

North Korea is expanding Russian classes as Moscow ties deepen, but a shortage of Russian teachers has English teachers ...

North Korea is sending more workers to Russia in 2026, but recruits often leave without knowing their destination and can ...

Dandong-Sinuiju shipping costs hit 8,000 yuan per container for a 3 km trip, leaving traders little profit as the new bridge ...

Families of North Korean defectors are turning remittance brokers away at the door in 2026, refusing cash from relatives ...

Rice prices rose nearly 7% in Pyongyang, Sinuiju and Hyesan as new corn pushed grain prices down and a security clampdown hit ...

Hyesan lectures tout free housing as proof of socialism and mock South Korean mortgages, but local listeners murmur in ...

Inspectors are searching fishing boats in South Hwanghae for hidden radios used to pick up South Korean broadcasts at sea.

Chinese traders flood the old Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge with cargo, fearing steep tolls on the soon-to-open New Yalu ...