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＜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

Recent Russian flour imports through Rason (Rajin-Sonbong) have been confirmed as being sold steadily in Ryanggang and N...
＜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

This year, North Korea's rural support system is shifting away from a comprehensive total mobilization structure to one ...
＜Inside N.K＞North Korea Arrests Former Midwife for Illegal Abortions as Kim Jong Un Regime Targets Birth Control Amid Declining Birth Rates: "They Don't Even Sell Contraceptives... Women Are Suffering"
2025.06.09
Society / Economy

A woman in her 50s was arrested May 15 in North Korea's Kimhyongjik County, Ryanggang Province, on charges of secretly p...
Internal Document Leaks Give Kim Regime Headaches... Digitization as Countermeasure (2) Propaganda Website 'Napalsu' Replaces Print Materials... "People Carrying Publications Have Disappeared"
2025.06.05
Politics

North Korea's regime is digitalizing its propaganda documents through a dedicated PC platform called "Napalsu" designed ...

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＜Inside N. Korea＞ Internal Document Leaks Give Kim Regime Headaches... Digitization as Countermeasure (1)　'Preventing Secret Leaks' Directive Document Obtained and Released

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Internal Document Leaks Give Kim Regime Headaches... Digitization as Countermeasure (1)　'Preventing Secret Leaks' Directive Document Obtained and Released

2025.05.30

＜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

＜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

＜North Korea Analysis＞How Should We View Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

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＜North Korea Analysis＞How Should We View Kim Jong-un's Agricultural Policy Reform?

2025.05.22

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

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

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

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

＜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...

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

＜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'?

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

＜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

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

＜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"

Society / Economy

＜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

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