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Rural people mobilized as Pyongyang construction project falls behind schedule 
Date : November 12, 2021
Rural North Koreans mobilized as Pyongyang construction project falls behind schedule As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to build 50,000 houses by the end of 2…
Another bad harvest in NK underscores root cause of food crisis 
Date : November 10, 2021
Another bad harvest in North Korea underscores root cause of food crisisNorth Korea is expected to face a devastating famine worse than the one it suffered in 1994-1998 f…
NK refuses to take responsibility for pesticide-poisoned farmers 
Date : November 4, 2021
North Korea refuses to take responsibility for pesticide-poisoned farmers. The number of North Korean farmers holding ‘cirrhosis’ disease is growing while the gove…
Due to BTS dance moves solders sent to political prison camp. 
Date : October 30, 2021
Three soldiers caught mimicking BTS dance moves sent to political prison camp. Three Soldiers were dragged off on Aug. 5 of last year, after they were caught mimicki…
Military training camps into “No.1 combat posture” 
Date : October 27, 2021
Military training camps into “No.1 combat posture” The Operations Bureau of the General Staff Department issued an order on Oct. 22 calling on training camps in al…
Kim Jong Un orders the capture of family 
Date : October 18, 2021
Kim Jong Un personally orders the capture of family who drugged border guards Daily NK source has reported that a North Korean family of four defected into China on …
New emergency rules amid COVID-19 spread 
Date : October 14, 2021
North Korea announces new emergency rules amid COVID-19 spread. New strict COVID-19 rules have been distributed to residents. A source in South Pyongan Province said…
North Korean shot dead upon arrival from China. 
Date : October 8, 2021
North Korean shot dead upon arrival from China. Daily NK reported that a North Korean in his 50s, who left the country, hungry, with nothing to eat, to visit a relat…
Teachers being reduced to farmers for the potato harvest. 
Date : October 6, 2021
Teachers being reduced to farmers in Yanggang Province for the potato harvest. Daily NK has recently obtained information from an internal source that local teachers…
Strict management of grain supplies ahead of autumn harvest 
Date : September 30, 2021
Strict management of grain supplies ahead of autumn harvestDaily NK obtained documents recently distributed by the Yanggang Province branch of the ruling party to subordi…
Allowing people to use foreign currency at state-run food shops 
Date : September 30, 2021
Allowing people to use foreign currency at state-run food shopsThe move suggests the authorities have adopted a strategy to absorb more foreign currency as tough internat…
New foreign currency vouchers into full circulation 
Date : September 30, 2021
New foreign currency vouchers into full circulationForeign currency vouchers, which can be exchanged for foreign currency, were first issued by North Korea’s Central Ban…
Financial distress leads people to resort to robbery 
Date : September 27, 2021
Financial distress leads some North Koreans to resort to robberyAccording to a Daily NK source on Sept. 22, a woman in her twenties was the victim of robbery on the stree…
MSS officer arrested for colluding with remittance broker 
Date : September 13, 2021
Ministry of Social Security officer in Hyesan arrested for colluding with remittance brokerA Ministry of Social Security agent at Hyesan Station and secretary of a local …
8 people put on trial for imitating SK TV characters 
Date : September 2, 2021
Eight young people in Musan County put on trial for imitating characters in S. Korean TV programs and filmsA source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday tha…
 
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