Politics <Inside N. Korea> Regime tightens reigns on young people...A public trial and ideological struggle in February led to intensive attacks and forced participation in firing squads 2024.03.17
Politics <Inside N. Korea>S.Korea is the enemy…Trends after Kim Jong Un’s “anti-unification policy” announcement (2) What is the confrontational policy aimed at doing? Asked people for their opinions and atmosphere inside 2024.02.19
Politics <Inside N. Korea> S.Korea is the enemy…Trends after Kim Jong Un’s “anti-unification policy” announcement (1) People are surprised and confused 2024.02.15
Politics What occurred behind the veil in N.Korea 2020-2023 What occurred behind the veil in N.Korea 2020-2023…A disaster unfolding due to shifts in the Kim Jong-un regime’s policies…Part 4: A serious humanitarian crisis and the appearance of “Kim Ju-ae” ISHIMARU Jiro 2024.01.24
Politics What occurred behind the veil in N.Korea 2020-2023 What occurred behind the veil in N.Korea 2020-2023…A disaster unfolding due to shifts in the Kim Jong-un regime’s policies…Part 3: Kim Jong-un’s anti-market policies ISHIMARU Jiro 2024.01.22
Politics What occurred behind the veil in N.Korea 2020-2023 What occurred behind the veil in N.Korea 2020-2023…A disaster unfolding due to shifts in the Kim Jong-un regime’s policies…Part 2: The impact of the border closure…escape is now almost impossible ISHIMARU Jiro 2024.01.19
Politics What occurred behind the veil in N.Korea 2020-2023 What occurred behind the veil in N.Korea 2020-2023…A disaster unfolding due to shifts in the Kim Jong-un regime’s policies…Part 1: A blind spot with no outside witnesses ISHIMARU Jiro 2024.01.18
Politics <Interview> How was the public execution in Hyesan carried out?…In just four months, three executions have occurred in the city… “We were lined up at our places of work and marched to the execution site” 2023.12.29
Politics <Urgent Report> Public execution takes place again on December 19, the third in Hyesan this year…large numbers of people mobilized to witness event 2023.12.27
Politics <Inside N. Korea> The Major Changes Surrounding the November 26 Elections(2) Emergency interview with someone who voted in the election…Despite “Against” box at election booths, “nobody could vote against the candidate” 2023.12.05
Politics <Inside N. Korea> A year after “Kim Ju-ae“ ’s first appearance, what kinds of things are people saying about her? 2023.11.30
Politics <Inside N. Korea> The Major Changes Surrounding the November 26 Elections(1) For the first time, multiple candidates on secret ballots for preliminary election…a small change in past elections 2023.11.28
Politics <Inside N. Korea> The Kim Jong-un regime resumes public executions…Man executed in late September in Yanggang Province for stealing medicine 2023.10.10
Politics <Inside N. Korea>Government calls on people to “repay the Supreme Leader’s hard work” during Kim Jong-un’s visit to Russia and mobilizes people for farmwork and construction projects 2023.09.21
Politics <Inside N. Korea> People increasingly interested in Kim Jong-un’s daughter following continuous appearances in state-run media…Several people investigated for claiming that “the era of a female Supreme Leader has arrived” 2023.09.19
Politics <Breaking News>Kim Jong-un regime restarts public executions…Nine people shot to death in Hyesan City on August 30 according to witness 2023.09.05
Politics <Inside N. Korea> Regime demands provincial party cadres to write self-criticisms regarding failure to social chaos, including starvation deaths 2023.07.24
Politics <Inside N. Korea>Police decided to use gun to combat rash of robberies…Soldiers also frequently take part in robberies, using “knives to threaten people and take away their bicycles, phones, and even their clothes” 2023.07.20
Politics The Pyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act calls for execution of violators in a bid to eliminate South Korean style speech from the DPRK 2023.05.19
Politics <Investigation> The authorities start crackdowns based on the Pyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act (2) “People using South Korean style speech are being arrested”…ASIAPRESS asks its reporting partners about the crackdown 2023.05.04
Politics <Investigation> The authorities start crackdowns based on the Pyongyang Cultural Language Protection Act (1)… “Eliminate South Korean speech, dialects, and loanwords”… The maximum punishment is execution 2023.04.30
Politics <Inside N. Korea> “Just one piece of laundry soap and a couple kilograms of corn…” ASIAPRESS asks N. Koreans about the special rations for Kim Il Sung’s birthday 2023.04.17
Politics <Interview with N. Korean> Conducts mass mobilization to farming communities: “People are being ordered to increase grain production to the death”… Even farmers are suffering from lack of food 2023.04.16
Politics How should we view Kim Jong-un’s daughter? The regime is looking to perpetuate the country’s one-family rule into a fourth succession ISHIMARU Jiro 2023.02.28