Wealthy North Korean women are dieting and seeking Botox, driven by beauty standards spreading through smuggled videos and marketplace trade.

North Korean factories are running just hours a day as a worsening electricity shortage threatens the regime’s five-year ...

In Hyesan, women who funded their husbands’ taxi businesses are divorcing them after the men spend earnings on drugs and ...

North Korea’s imga-gong sector sees rising Chinese orders in 2026, but stagnant unit prices and higher shipping costs keep ...

North Korea orders 400 housing units built in North Hamgyong in March alone as Ninth Party Congress housing targets escalate ...

North Korean schools are leaning on parents of class leaders to fund renovations, from swimming pools to classroom furniture.

North Korea’s Ministry of State Security is tracking the spread of rumors about soldiers captured in Ukraine, after a YouTube ...

North Korean schoolchildren as young as elementary age were forced to march through neighborhoods waving flowers and singing ...

North Korean households in rural North Hamgyong are surviving on tofu dregs as grain runs out months ahead of the usual lean ...

North Koreans say military-civilian solidarity rallies have been replaced by political events since the Ninth Congress of the ...

Rice and corn prices hit post-reform highs in North Korea as the resumption of Beijing-Pyongyang trains drives a record won ...

Satellite imagery reveals a dedicated train station for Kim Jong Un at the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm on Wihwa Island.