Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Increasing pressure on housewives... Forced labor, ideological education, self-criticism - women complain loudly that there's "no time to do business" 2024.07.31
Politics <Inside N. Korea> The Expansion of Card Payments: Realities and Reliability? (2) Some who do not trust the state that tracks money flows are still reluctant to use cards 2024.07.29
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>The Expansion of Card Payments: Realities and Reliability? (1) Wages paid by card, which can also be used in state-run stores and markets 2024.07.25
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Significant decline in sickness and deaths due to government aid and the barley harvest 2024.07.24
Politics <Inside N. Korea>Thirty years after his death, memorial services for Kim Il-sung have become simpler …Ryanggang Provinces ban drinking for just one day 2024.07.21
Politics <Interview> 'Even Mattress Metal Springs Are Not Allowed' China's Unexpectedly Strict Economic Sanctions on N. Korea 2024.07.18
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Decreasing number of train riders leads to fall in train services…government focuses on using trains for freight transportation 2024.07.16
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Crackdowns intensify on people taking photos and videos with their cell phones…”We can’t take even one photo with their phones” 2024.07.15
Society / Economy <Investigation>Current living conditions of North Koreans (3) The free healthcare system that the Workers’ Party boasts has completely collapsed 2024.07.03
Society / Economy <Investigation>Current living conditions of N. Koreans (2) How is public education corrupting 2024.07.02
Society / Economy <Investigation>Current living conditions of North Koreans (1) Poor infrastructure…conditions surrounding water, electricity, heating, and restrooms 2024.07.01
Society / Economy <Interview with a N. Korean Woman>What was happening in the spring of 2024? (2) Excluding S. Korea and erasing unification; Reign of terror 2024.06.28
Society / Economy <Interview with a N. Korean Woman>What was happening in the spring of 2024? (1) Who is starving and why? 2024.06.26
Politics <Inside N. Korea>Army removes 'unification' phrase with paint, even removing 'sacred words' of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jung Il, confusing many poeple 2024.06.12
Society / Economy <Interview from Inside N. Korea>The state of North Korea's smuggling activities, which has expanded dramatically and includes many UN sanctioned items 2024.06.04
News Farmers protest against lack of food rations, police mobilized Cadres diverted food to other uses 2024.06.03
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Regime hands out rice to rural food-short households, “Pay back in the fall with 30% interest” 2024.05.29
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Crackdowns aren’t focused just on the “South Wave” anymore…Hands down the “April 27 Directive” to intensify crackdowns on the form of videos made by domestic individuals 2024.05.23
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Farm mobilizations in full swing across the country…State-run stores and markets operating shorter hours Rations are provided to those mobilized people 2024.05.22
Politics <Inside N. Korea>State-led smuggling resumes in the Yalu River, sends seafood and copper ore to China, bringing in UN-sanctioned goods like cars and machinery 2024.05.21
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Chinese RMB exchange rate surges, up 42.8% since start of year...National police agency warns individuals and businesses against using foreign currencies 2024.05.20
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Blindsided by information blockade...Unprecedented surveillance as defectors' families considered chief drivers of flow of outside information 2024.05.20
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Hungry elderly people flock to government office to demand rice, leading police to mobilize to put down unrest…Hyesan city 2024.05.13
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>April rations at the largest iron mine was just 3 kilograms of corn per worker…Anxiety-ridden workers voluntarily mobilize to farming work 2024.05.10