North Korea sent about 10,000 new workers to China in a single month, and more than 50,000 workers are already under contract ...

Three Chongjin youths were reprimanded for saying "appa," a South Korean word for dad, amid North Korea's crackdown on ...

As North Koreans buy more private cars, crashes involving new drivers are rising and there's still no system to compensate ...

A Hyesan school had hotel cuisine students buy their own ingredients for a 2026 exam, fueling complaints over North Korea's ...

North Korean workers say official salaries barely cover a fraction of costs, with trade and side jobs actually sustaining ...

North Korea border guard duty was once prized for smuggling bribes, but tighter controls cut off that income, leaving ...

Rumors of permanent residency IDs for North Korean defectors are spreading in China, raising hopes among those living without ...

North Koreans want a full graft probe after a senior military official's bribery was exposed at a July conference attended by ...

North Korean rice prices hit a record high in July as the exchange rate climbs too, driven by trade with China and falling ...

North Korea's youth league is threatening college students with expulsion over a crackdown on watching banned foreign films ...

Wealthy North Korean youth are choosing old, worn video players over new ones, betting inspectors assume rich families use ...

Rising prices are pushing more North Korean women into prostitution, a source says, as an organized trade makes police ...