Mobile Phones in North Korea — A World of Surveillance and Control
Today we’d like to share a video by Kim Yumi, a North Korean defector and speaker at the 2025 Oslo Freedom Forum, titled “North Korea’s...
What sparked the new cheek-kissing trend between parents and children?
A new trend among young parents kissing their children on the cheek has reportedly taken hold in North Korea. The fad of parents sending their...
North Korea’s tourism gamble: Kim unveils new resort to lure foreign visitors
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over the long-delayed grand opening of the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Area on June 24. After years of construction delays,...
Veterans to receive gift packages to mark “Victory Day” on July 27
The North Korean regime is to provide gifts to war veterans in commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice...
Kim Jong-un camp followers to cavort with Manhattan’s Marxists… US Juche jamboree, part Comintern, part bombintern
For anyone seeking insight into the nature and scope of the pro-North Korea movement in the United States, an opportunity is just about to arise....
Assault on Special Task Force member…Two perpetrators arrested, one on the run
An incident has reportedly occurred in North Hamgyong Province in which an off-duty member of a Special Task Force unit was assaulted. According to an...
North Korea’s changing marriage culture…a choice not of love?
Marriage culture in North Korea is reportedly undergoing noticeable changes. While relationships across class lines have existed in the past, it is now common for...
Warm up the ordinary people of North Korea, not the unyielding, self-absorbed elite
In Aesop’s The North Wind and the Sun, the two characters quarrel over who is stronger. A timely traveller, wrapped in a cloak, appears on...
When the U.S. steps in, North Korea listens and learns
On June 22nd, 2025, the U.S. military, authorized by Donald Trump, dropped multiple GBU-57 bombs on three of Iran's key nuclear facilities: The Nantanz Nuclear...
North Korea’s embrace of the two-state theory a political death sentence for defectors
When U.S. President Donald Trump said he “gets along well with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader instantly fired back, calling the U.S. “a gangster...
North Korea condemns U.S. human rights offensive in public lectures
The government in North Korea has reportedly launched an ideological offensive in the form of public lectures targeting factory workers and residents, claiming there is...
Soldiers killed in Russia honored as ‘Hero of the Republic’… Families relocated to Pyongyang
North Korea has reportedly awarded its highest honor, the “Hero of the Republic,” to several soldiers who died in combat in the Russian war with...
A victory for America, Israel, and the Republic of Korea … in the Middle East and in Washington
The new leftist administration of President Lee Jae-myung, which is causing concerns in Washington for his independent (non-values based) foreign policy proclivities, seems to be...