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＜Inside N. Korea＞ Explaining the Ukraine War to Citizens: "Russia's Patriotic War," "A Favorable Situation for Our Revolution" - Silence on Troop Deployment and Casualties
2025.05.23
Military

In early May, North Korean authorities reportedly held lectures on world affairs for citizens, describing the Ukraine wa...
＜North Korea Analysis＞How Should We View Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?
2025.05.22
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, the North Korean regime has intensified its isolationist tendencies while sim...
North-China Border 1,000km Journey by a North Korean Defector and a Fourth-Generation Korean-Japanese (2): The Blue Yalu River... Visiting My Homeland 10 Years After Defection
2025.05.20
Society / Economy

What kind of lives are our North Korean brothers and sisters living now? Might I catch a glimpse of someone I know? With...
North-China Border 1,000km Journey by a North Korean Defector and Fourth-Generation Korean-Japanese (1): To the Closest Point to My Ancestral Land, North Korea
2025.05.19
Society / Economy

What kind of lives do North Koreans lead today, and what are they thinking? To find out, two ASIAPRESS journalists heade...
＜North Korea Special＞What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Reform? (10) 'Farm Fool' is Old News, Claims that 'Farm Workers are Popular Now' - Hope for New Policies, But...
2025.05.15
Society / Economy
＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

Kim Jong-un's new agricultural policy reforms have not yet fully taken root on the ground. Despite confusion during the ...

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＜Inside N. Korea＞Military Service Period Extended Again - Men Now Serve 10 Years, Women 7 Years

＜Inside N. Korea＞Military Service Period Extended Again - Men Now Serve 10 Years, Women 7 Years

2025.05.14

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (9) Farmers Only Allowed to Sell to 'Grain Sales Store' - Is the State Monopoly on Food Distribution Taking Hold?

Society / Economy

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (9) Farmers Only Allowed to Sell to 'Grain Sales Store' - Is the State Monopoly on Food Distribution Taking Hold?

2025.05.12

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (8) Farms Directly Selling Grain, Even Setting Prices... What Is the Newly Emerged 'Agricultural Material Exchange Center'?

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＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (8) Farms Directly Selling Grain, Even Setting Prices... What Is the Newly Emerged 'Agricultural Material Exchange Center'?

2025.05.09

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (7) Creating a New Framework for Farm Food Distribution

Society / Economy

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (7) Creating a New Framework for Farm Food Distribution

2025.04.30

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (6) Illegal Cultivation Land - Farmers Feel Crisis as 'Sotoji' is Completely Banned

Society / Economy

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (6) Illegal Cultivation Land - Farmers Feel Crisis as 'Sotoji' is Completely Banned

2025.04.25

＜North Korea Special＞What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (5) Distribution Method Changed... "Quotas are High and Distribution is Low" "Losing Heart" - Farm Workers' Complaints

Society / Economy

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (5) Distribution Method Changed... "Quotas are High and Distribution is Low" "Losing Heart" - Farm Workers' Complaints

2025.04.25

＜Inside N. Korea＞'Show Me What's in Your Phone' - A Student Souple Resisted the Overly Strict Inspection, But...

＜Inside N. Korea＞'Show Me What's in Your Phone' - A Student Souple Resisted the Overly Strict Inspection, But...

2025.04.22

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (4) State Quotas vs. Farmers' Survival: How to Divide? Changes in Distribution

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＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (4) State Quotas vs. Farmers' Survival: How to Divide? Changes in Distribution

2025.04.22

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Counterfeit Money Flooding: NK Won, Chinese Yuan, and 'Donpyo' Vouchers Spreading Despite Major Crackdowns

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Counterfeit Money Flooding: NK Won, Chinese Yuan, and 'Donpyo' Vouchers Spreading Despite Major Crackdowns

2025.04.17

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (3) Expanding Farm Management Rights: Farmers Say "Farms Now Play the Role of Landlords"

Society / Economy

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (3) Expanding Farm Management Rights: Farmers Say "Farms Now Play the Role of Landlords"

2025.04.09

＜North Korea Special＞What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (2) Enterprise-Style Farms Codified in Law - Has 'Juche Farming' Been Abandoned?

Society / Economy

＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (2) Enterprise-Style Farms Codified in Law - Has 'Juche Farming' Been Abandoned?

2025.04.08

＜Inside N. Korea＞Even Housewives Being Mobilized - New "Women's League Shock Brigades" for Farm Labor as Kim Jong-Un Regime Demands Farms Cover Labor Costs

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞Even Housewives Being Mobilized - New "Women's League Shock Brigades" for Farm Labor as Kim Jong-Un Regime Demands Farms Cover Labor Costs

2025.04.07

＜North Korea Special＞What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (1) "Collective" Disappears from Farms　Major Revisions to Agricultural Regulations

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＜North Korea Special＞ What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

＜North Korea Special＞What is the Reality of Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? (1) "Collective" Disappears from Farms　Major Revisions to Agricultural Regulations

2025.04.01

＜Inside N. Korea＞Four Struggling Female Students Expelled and Banished to Rural Areas for Prostitution: Young People's Violation of Order Met with Harsh Punishment

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞Four Struggling Female Students Expelled and Banished to Rural Areas for Prostitution: Young People's Violation of Order Met with Harsh Punishment

2025.03.26

＜Inside N. Korea＞Hunger Crisis: As 'Starving Spring' Approaches, Kim Jong-un's Regime Begins Surveying ' Households in Food Crisis'…UN Agency Reports: "45.5% of Population, 11.8 Million People Suffering from Malnutrition"

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＜Inside N. Korea＞Hunger Crisis: As 'Starving Spring' Approaches, Kim Jong-un's Regime Begins Surveying ' Households in Food Crisis'…UN Agency Reports: "45.5% of Population, 11.8 Million People Suffering from Malnutrition"

2025.03.24

＜Inside N. Korea＞The Rapid Expansion of Online Banking: Tracking Citizens' Money? Kim Regime Accelerates E-Money Adoption

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞The Rapid Expansion of Online Banking: Tracking Citizens' Money? Kim Regime Accelerates E-Money Adoption

2025.03.19

＜Inside N. Korea＞The 'Last Stronghold' of Defection in Crisis: Security Bureau Receives Commendation for Crackdown Success - Smuggling and Defections Nearly Eradicated

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞The 'Last Stronghold' of Defection in Crisis: Security Bureau Receives Commendation for Crackdown Success - Smuggling and Defections Nearly Eradicated

2025.03.11

＜Inside N. Korea＞Russian Deployment Exposed, Draft Evasion Surges — Students Fleeing, Faking Medical Certificates

＜Inside N. Korea＞Russian Deployment Exposed, Draft Evasion Surges — Students Fleeing, Faking Medical Certificates

2025.03.06

＜Inside N. Korea＞"10x Wage Increase" One Year Later: What Happened? (2) "No One Says Life Has Improved" - "Forced Attendance Makes Us Feel Like Government Slaves"

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞"10x Wage Increase" One Year Later: What Happened? (2) "No One Says Life Has Improved" - "Forced Attendance Makes Us Feel Like Government Slaves"

2025.03.04

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Are Cooperative Farms Being Nationalized? Local Confirmation of Name Changes - Potential Major Shift in Agricultural Land Ownership - Why Are "Farmers Unconcerned"?

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Are Cooperative Farms Being Nationalized? Local Confirmation of Name Changes - Potential Major Shift in Agricultural Land Ownership - Why Are "Farmers Unconcerned"?

2025.02.25

＜Inside N. Korea＞This Year's 'Fertilizer Battle' - Fierce Competition for Human Waste Collection, Unusual Rewards like Money and Tourism, "Some Wait with Shovels Under Outhouses"

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞This Year's 'Fertilizer Battle' - Fierce Competition for Human Waste Collection, Unusual Rewards like Money and Tourism, "Some Wait with Shovels Under Outhouses"

2025.02.20

＜Inside N. Korea＞"10x Wage Increase" One Year Later: What Happened? (1) Expanding Card Payments - "Frequent Power Outages are the Problem"

＜Inside N. Korea＞"10x Wage Increase" One Year Later: What Happened? (1) Expanding Card Payments - "Frequent Power Outages are the Problem"

2025.02.18

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Daytime Masked Robberies on the Rise - Young Organized Crime Groups Emerge in Hoeryong as Authorities Struggle with Deteriorating Security

Society / Economy

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Daytime Masked Robberies on the Rise - Young Organized Crime Groups Emerge in Hoeryong as Authorities Struggle with Deteriorating Security

2025.02.17

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Kim Jong-un Harshly Condemns Official Entertainment as "Mega Crime" - Private Restaurant Rooms Shut Down in Hyesan, Citizens React with Skepticism

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Kim Jong-un Harshly Condemns Official Entertainment as "Mega Crime" - Private Restaurant Rooms Shut Down in Hyesan, Citizens React with Skepticism

2025.02.14

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