NEW! Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Key Institutions Replace Chinese PCs with Domestic Products - Widespread Virus Infections and Information Leak Concerns - Components Still Chinese-Made 2025.08.05
NEW! Society / Economy The Rise and Fall of North Korea's Nouveau Riche 'Donju' (2) COVID and Anti-Market Policies... "70-80% of Donju Have Likely Collapsed" 2025.08.05
NEW! Society / Economy The Rise and Fall of North Korea's Nouveau Riche 'Donju' (1) The Donju's Market Debut: Prelude to a Great Collapse 2025.08.04
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Military Units Deployed for Farming Support Farms Welcome "Free Labor" While Hungry Soldiers Visit Households Pretending to Need Water, Asking for Food 2025.06.23
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Youth Missing in Large Numbers "They Left for Business or Mobilization Work and Never Returned..." Authorities Suspect Defections and Place Residents Under Emergency Surveillance 2025.06.20
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Large influx of Russian flour appears underway... Regular sales through grain stores, rations to major mines. Residents without cash unable to purchase 2025.06.16
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Long-Standing Rural Mobilization Practice of 'Total Mobilization' Support Has Disappeared - Farms Also Changing with Increased Burden: "Won't Accept Mobilized Workers if Possible" 2025.06.10
Society / Economy <Inside N.K> Former Midwife was arrested for Illegal Abortions as Kim Jong Un Regime Targets Birth Control: "They Don't Even Sell Contraceptives... Women Are Suffering" 2025.06.09
Recommendations <North Korea Analysis>How Should We View Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform? 2025.05.22
Society / Economy 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 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 <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 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? <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
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? (8) Farms Directly Selling Grain, Even Setting Prices... What Is the Newly Emerged 'Agricultural Material Exchange Center'? 2025.05.09
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
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
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
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? (4) State Quotas vs. Farmers' Survival: How to Divide? Changes in Distribution 2025.04.22
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Counterfeit Money Flooding: NK Won, Chinese Yuan, and 'Donpyo' Vouchers Spreading Despite Major Crackdowns 2025.04.17
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
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
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
Recommendations <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
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