NEW! Recommendations Large-Scale Vehicle Smuggling Between North Korea and China: Structure and Background (1) Heading to Hyesan, the Hub of Vehicle Smuggling 2025.10.30
NEW! Society / Economy ＜Super-telephoto Lens Report>One Year After Floods, What Does the Site Look Like Now? (3)Massive Embankment Like a Castle Wall; Mobilized Soldiers' Lunch is Enormous Amounts of Corn Rice (10 Photos) 2025.10.30
NEW! Society / Economy ＜Super-telephoto Lens Report＞ One Year After Floods, What Does the Site Look Like Now? (2) Brightly Lit at Night, with Corn and Laundry on Balconies... Signs of Life Can Be Felt (9 Photos) 2025.10.28
NEW! Society / Economy ＜Super-telephoto Lens Report> One Year After Floods, What Does the Site Look Like Now? (1) Rows of New Apartments... But Look Closely and Tiles Are Already Falling Off (10 Photos) 2025.10.27
NEW! Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞N. Korean Won Plunges 30-40% as Dollar and Yuan Surge Due to Foreign Currency Shortage; Rice Prices More Than Double, Food and Fuel Costs Skyrocket 2025.10.27
Movie ＜Ultra-Telephoto Footage＞ Bridge Construction Between N. Korea and Russia Progressing Steadily - Dump Trucks, Cranes... Chinese Heavy Equipment in Action 2025.10.15
Photo ＜N. Korea Photo Report＞Mass Smuggling of Vehicles in Violation of Sanctions... Hundreds of Luxury Cars Including Toyota and Trucks Lined Up at Border - Chinese Authorities Possibly Turning a Blind Eye 2025.10.15
Photo ＜Breaking News/ Super-telephoto＞The N.Korea-Russia Vehicle Bridge Construction Progressing Steadily (6 photos and maps) 2025.09.30
Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Mass outbreak of severe diarrhea and colitis patients from tap water - Authorities respond with large amounts of disinfectant, but "smell too strong to drink" in Hyesan 2025.09.26
Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Farm Officials Illegally Transfer Children to Cities... Avoiding the Despised Farmer Status of Poverty and Contempt 2025.09.15
Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞Solar and Biomass Power Facilities Being Installed on Farms - However, Costs to Be Paid by Farmers 2025.09.10
Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞Protect the Harvest - Farms Organize 24-Hour Paid Security Teams, Military Blocks Roads and Conducts Inspections 2025.09.10
Military ＜Inside N. Korea＞Almost Like Farmers? Military Farm Deployments Become Routine… Farms Welcome Free Labor, but Authorities Worry About Soldiers' Misconduct 2025.08.27
Society / Economy The Rise and Fall of the New Wealthy Class 'Donju' in the Kim Jong-un Era (5) Newly Emerging Under Economic Reform, Donju Who Enter Enterprises and Strike It Rich - Who Are They? 2025.08.25
Society / Economy The Rise and Fall of the New Wealthy Class 'Donju' in the Kim Jong-un Era (4) The Establishment of the 'Enterprise Responsibility Management System' - The Dawn of the Corporate Age... Donju Seizing New Opportunities 2025.08.19
Society / Economy The Rise and Fall of the New Wealthy Class 'Donju' in the Kim Jong-un Era (3) Only the Sign Says 'State-run Store' - What About the Actual Operations? The Resurgence of Donju 2025.08.15
Society / Economy ＜Atomic Bomb Survivors Who Went to N. Korea＞"My Brother Suffered for Life": Testimony of N. Korean Defector Park Young-sook 2025.08.12
Society / Economy North Korea is Sweltering! Pyongyang Hits 36°C, Mother and Daughter Sleeping Outdoors in Hamhung Hit and Killed by Car, Outdoor Sleeping Banned 2025.08.12
Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Key Institutions Replace Chinese PCs with Domestic Products - Widespread Virus Infections and Information Leak Concerns - Components Still Chinese-Made 2025.08.05
Society / Economy The Rise and Fall of the New Wealthy Class 'Donju' in the Kim Jong-un Era (2) COVID and Anti-Market Policies... "70-80% of Donju Have Likely Collapsed" 2025.08.05
Society / Economy The Rise and Fall of the New Wealthy Class 'Donju' in the Kim Jong-un Era (1) The Donju's Market Debut: Prelude to a Great Collapse 2025.08.04
Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞Military Units Deployed for Farming Support Farms Welcome "Free Labor" While Hungry Soldiers Visit Households Pretending to Need Water, Asking for Food 2025.06.23
Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞Youth Missing in Large Numbers "They Left for Business or Mobilization Work and Never Returned..." Authorities Suspect Defections and Place Residents Under Emergency Surveillance 2025.06.20
Society / Economy ＜Inside N. Korea＞Large influx of Russian flour appears underway... Regular sales through grain stores, rations to major mines. Residents without cash unable to purchase 2025.06.16
