The certificate used to give families of war dead special privileges, but it is now essentially worthless.
North Korea news in English
Organizations that fund the government sometimes use farmland for other businesses, exacerbating food shortages.
Frustrated by more hardline policies, Pyongyang is stepping up sloganeering against ‘imperialist aggressor’ U.S.
Flour is now 3 times costlier than rice, and people who can afford bread are seen as well-to-do.
Companies that use foreign labor are nervous about paying $1,500 per worker in a COVID outbreak.
Patrol boats that trawl the seas to catch illegal shipments use illegally imported fuel themselves.
The decision may indicate the government could soon declare victory over the pandemic.
Only the soldiers assigned to duties off-base have received COVID-19 vaccines.
Satellite images show a dramatic decrease in market activity.
The government is forcing ‘volunteers’ to feed families of patients in quarantine but doesn’t offer any extra food.
They now must send more money to the government back home each month than they earn, according to one source.
Authorities fear that trying economic conditions could lead to dissent.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex remains officially closed, but the factories there still make high-quality clothes.
The directive marks the third time this year officials have been asked to pay more to their government.
North Korea says the rate of new cases has declined but are keeping a quarantine in place.
China and Russia last week blocked a UN effort to punish North Korea for missile tests.
A rural black market of ineffective remedies has emerged as treatments are in short supply.
Mid-tier managers are being confined for 3-4 days as leaders look to shift blame, sources say.
Mobile broadcast units promote the ‘Immortal Potion of Love’ and praise leader Kim Jong Un
A team of 13 officials, doctors and technicians traveled to Pyongyang to help fight a recent outbreak.
Sources report some expectant mothers suffered stillbirths after being placed in makeshift care facilities.
The authorities have mobilized medical students to help out overwhelmed doctors in the city’s hospitals.
Students are ordered to attend remote learning, but spotty electricity and lack of computers raise big challenges.
Officials rush to procure free Sinovac doses from China to treat those who have fallen ill.
Britons Timothy Cho and Jihyun Park say their candidacies validated their hard road to freedom.
Around 20,000 people were involved in the event, and soldiers who participated are now testing positive.
The country switches to a ‘maximum emergency epidemic prevention system’ as Omicron spreads
Sources say the managers exaggerate their workers’ poor living conditions to take advantage of the business owners.
A shortage of water pumps complicates efforts to combat drought.
Officials are also on the lookout for t-shirts with foreign words and styles that that do not reflect socialism.