Story Archive
2021-06-18
Officers could be punished for authorizing use of stockpiled food, fuel and medicine.
2021-06-16
Starving families risk their lives to contact relatives from abroad to receive remittances.
2021-06-15
Sources uncertain who is first in line to receive Sinopharm jab.
2021-06-14
Even the capital Pyongyang is suffering major price shocks as rice prices rise nearly 30 percent.
2021-06-11
Angry residents say self-reliance is ‘fiction’ and not a real solution to economic problems.
2021-06-10
Construction projects in the capital prioritized as rural residents stumble in the dark.
2021-06-08
State funds are so low that the supplier of meat to Kim Jong Un is hawking unhatched eggs as health supplements.
2021-06-07
Workers complain that they barely make enough for living expenses but now must pay even more to their government.
2021-06-03
The move hurts North Korean residents already struggling every day to earn a living, sources in the country say.
2021-05-25
Each Pyongyang household must report the number of TVs they own, and they face stiff punishments for hiding them.
2021-05-21
"We both are deeply concerned about the situation," Joe Biden says after talks with Seoul's Moon Jae-in.
2021-05-20
The move is aimed at ensuring loyalty to the regime at a time of general hunger and hardship in the country.
2021-05-18
“Devil woman” Kim Yo Jong orders probes of government agencies and executes officials who “get on her nerves,” they say.
2021-05-17
With government pay so low, employees of a machinery factory skip work to harvest clams and crabs.
2021-05-14
Rep. Chris Smith urges South Korea to rethink its ban on sending leaflet balloons over the DMZ.
