북한의 가을걷이 총동원이 마무리 단계에 접어들고 있는 가운데, 현장에서는 농장원들이 돈을 받고 다른 농장에 대신 동원을 나가는 기이한 현상이 나타나고 있는 것으로 전해졌다. 이는 국가의 동원 시스템에 시장 논리가 적용되고 ...

As business slows at North Korea’s marketplaces, people are complaining about being constantly called up for mandatory ...

The Chinese government freed the Hongxiang Group’s major executives after criminally punishing them. They kept a low profile afterwards, but have recently returned to trade with North Korea.

Several North Koreans who had resorted to gold mining as a last resort in the face of economic difficulties recently died ...

Soldiers of the 25th Brigade of North Korea’s border guard based in Ryanggang province have gone on a rampage of crop theft this harvest season.

North Korea recently scrapped its system of preliminary examinations—a legal procedure the country maintained for roughly 70 years since the regime’s founding.

Exhausted farmers in North Pyongan province, are watching their fields around the clock after repeated thefts from family plots.

North Korea has continued using South Korean buses from the Kaesong Industrial Complex in an unauthorized fashion even after the complex was closed, and ...

Rice prices are plunging at North Korean marketplaces as demand falls with this year’s corn harvest and imported grains reaching markets.

진한 색은 단속에 걸리기 십상이기 때문에 단속원이 보이면 곧장 집으로 가서 아세톤으로 지워야 하는 번거로움이 있어, 요새는 눈에 잘 띄지 않는 옅은 색의 매니큐어를 선호하는 분위기라고 한다.

Hyundai buses originally meant for industrial complex workers are now ferrying tourists to coastal resorts and royal tombs ...

이렇게 시장이 침체하는 이유는 당국이 자력갱생을 외치며 각종 사회적 동원과 집단노동 과제를 계속해서 내리고 있기 때문이라고 소식통들은 지적했다. 주민들이 동원 때문에 장사할 시간을 빼앗기고, 이로 인해 소득이 발생하지 않는 ...