North Korean authorities are pushing research-based learning in schools, but teachers say poor conditions and political ...

A professional dealer and a university student were caught smuggling hundreds of grams of meth through a checkpoint in North Hamgyong province.

N. Korea has suspended state smuggling in three border provinces ahead of the Ninth Party Congress, threatening to raise prices and disrupt supply chains.

North Korea maintains four railway crossings to China and one to Russia while physically severing connections to South Korea ...

North Korean clam gatherers face wage theft and military surveillance as aquaculture expansion exploits coastal workers in ...

Hoeryong launched a neighbor-helping-neighbor firewood drive after finding one in five homes cold and starving in North ...

Kim Jong Un orders crackdown on prosecutors taking bribes to shield elite students, activating law allowing immediate ...

A loudspeaker truck in Haeju, South Hwanghae province, stalled during North Korea’s morning rush hour propaganda drive, ...

Nampo factory workers ordered to collect 500kg compost weekly before party congress must bribe farms for certificates or pay ...

Chinese manufacturers lose trust in North Korean partners who miss deadlines, cut contact, and sell finished goods themselves ...

North Korean forest rangers are seizing firewood from freezing people to meet quotas for factories producing Kim Jong Il ...