North Korean border guard units have recently begun cracking down harder on its soldiers using private barbers, designating ...

North Korea’s elite women are flaunting luxury fur coats worth millions of won while ordinary workers struggle to afford rice ...

As the end of the year approaches, North Korea’s ruling party has sent inspectors to major shipyards in Chongjin, Rajin, ...

Many households in North Korea’s Ryanggang province — where winter temperatures plummet to close to 30 degrees Celsius below ...

North Korea has launched a heavy-handed crackdown on private rice sales in North Hamgyong province. “After the Central Committee ordered a halt to the private distribution and sale of ...

Kangwon province is enforcing a strict ban on individual vendors setting their own prices for products made at local ...

As officers from the logistics departments of government agencies begin collecting grain, they are profiteering by tampering ...

For North Korean young people, a handwritten letter remains the chief means of expressing feelings of passion.

Recently, South Korea’s Defense Intelligence Agency said North Korea “could carry out a nuclear test within a short period of ...

North Korean trading companies have recently been importing large quantities of clothing from South Korea and other countries ...

A North Korean soldier was fatally beaten by his superiors in early October, according to a source in the country.

North Korea is redoubling efforts to build shopping centers with bathhouses and hair salons in the provinces as part of its ...