Sources uncertain who is first in line to receive Sinopharm jab.
North Korea news in English
Even the capital Pyongyang is suffering major price shocks as rice prices rise nearly 30 percent.
Angry residents say self-reliance is ‘fiction’ and not a real solution to economic problems.
Construction projects in the capital prioritized as rural residents stumble in the dark.
State funds are so low that the supplier of meat to Kim Jong Un is hawking unhatched eggs as health supplements.
Workers complain that they barely make enough for living expenses but now must pay even more to their government.
The move hurts North Korean residents already struggling every day to earn a living, sources in the country say.
Each Pyongyang household must report the number of TVs they own, and they face stiff punishments for hiding them.
"We both are deeply concerned about the situation," Joe Biden says after talks with Seoul's Moon Jae-in.
The move is aimed at ensuring loyalty to the regime at a time of general hunger and hardship in the country.
“Devil woman” Kim Yo Jong orders probes of government agencies and executes officials who “get on her nerves,” they say.
With government pay so low, employees of a machinery factory skip work to harvest clams and crabs.
Rep. Chris Smith urges South Korea to rethink its ban on sending leaflet balloons over the DMZ.
Sinuiju only gets four hours of power per day, but residents must show China that electricity is not a problem.
Residents living near construction sites in the North Korean capital must travel in large groups for safety.
Farmers laugh after being told to fight a “compost battle” in their toilets.
With unfamiliar group leaders, youth will snitch on each other ‘more honestly.’
Officials ignored regulations and allowed subordinates to handle sensitive materials.
People wonder if even stricter quarantine measures are about health or testing their loyalty.
Pyongyang threatens retaliation against the “dirty human scum” that send balloons carrying anti-regime propaganda.
Demobbed soldiers are angry that they sacrificed their youth for the country only to face often harder lives.
Farmers need to plant soon, but most lack the tractors to finish plowing.
At a time when North Korea’s recovery depends on Beijing, Pyongyang bans anti-Chinese racial slurs and criticism of its northern neighbor.
Chinese companies stockpiled raw materials in anticipation of a reopening, but now they are staring at heavy losses.
Dry goods prices dropped dramatically after Chinese imports flood the market.
The 300 tons of corn is the first cargo to cross the Sino-Korean border in more than a year.
Government pats itself on the back for ordering local governments to give out extra food they don’t have.
The new route diverts Chinese imports away from Pyongyang to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
The effort to solve Pyongyang’s housing shortage leaves many residents of the affected areas homeless.
Pressed to deliver 10,000 houses by year’s end, authorities drag women away from their familial responsibilities to work at night.