North Korean authorities have begun criticizing enterprises’ customary practice of aekbeori—allowing workers to skip ...

“This emphasis on obeying the law is presumably designed to highlight that our country operates under the rule of law. But ...

North Korean workers were frustrated with the speech national leader Kim Jong Un delivered in Pyongyang on New Year’s Day.

President Lee Jae-myung’s recent visit to Beijing, the first by a South Korean leader since 2019, marks a tentative reset in ...

Nearly a year has passed since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally announced the first year of a revolution in public ...

In North Korea, people can pay utilities like electricity bills and housing fees through mobile transfers. Those with phones ...

Those caught with unwashed vehicles must complete time-consuming paperwork, including written statements, and pay fines that ...

North Korean high schools are scrambling to build labs and secure equipment as the country prepares to launch an elective ...

North Korea plans to grant Pyongyang residency to families of soldiers killed fighting in Russia, but it’s strictly limiting the privilege to immediate relatives and conducting thorough background ...

According to a Daily NK source in North Pyongan province, markets in agricultural regions like Unsan county have been ...

Authorities are offering rewards and threatening punishments to normalize citizen surveillance and reporting of "anti-socialist lifestyles" A North Korean surveillance post photographed near the ...