Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Soaring Food Prices Cause Market Chaos: Elderly and Poor Starve as Price of Corn More Than Doubles 2021.06.16
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Why is Hunger Getting Worse in June? “Malnutrition has made it impossible to go to work, and some have died from eating wild plants” 2021.06.15
Society / Economy COVID-19 <Inside N. Korea> Kim Jong-un Gives Direct Order to Crackdown on Cash Brokers: “S. Korean agents are painting Chinese banknotes with coronavirus and sending them here” 2021.06.14
Society / Economy <N. Korea> A Mysterious 33% Surge in the Won Against the RMB…Are the Authorities Manipulating N. Korea’s Currency? 2021.06.08
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Major Power Outages Continue Across Cities as Electricity Supply to Residents is Cut Off Drastically…Why? 2021.06.08
Society / Economy <Interview with a North Korean woman (2) > Flouting Hallyu Crackdown, N. Korean Teens Speak in S. Korean Dialect and Even Engage in ‘Sexting’ 2021.06.02
Society / Economy COVID-19 <Interview with a North Korean Woman (1) > Why the COVID Situation is Causing a Surge in “Black-Market Abortions” 2021.05.31
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Digital Dictatorship: Top Leadership Forced to Take Computer Classes as Kim Jong-un Orders Officials to “Keep up with the times” 2021.05.21
Politics <Inside N. Korea> Maximum Punishment Under the "Korean Wave Suppression Act" is Death…Still, K-pop is Popular 2021.05.19
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> More Elderly and Children Begging in the Streets…Girls at Greater Risk of Sexual Abuse 2021.05.17
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> The maximum penalty for the "Korean Wave Suppression Act" is death. Still, K-pop is popular among young people. 2021.05.14
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Order to Abolish All "Hidden Fields": Farmers Fear Starvation as Ban Begins 2021.05.11
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>"Crash Landing on You" Finally Reaches N. Korean Screens: Interviews With the Women Risking their Lives to Watch It 2021.05.06
Politics <Inside N. Korea> "Show me your texts and photos": Strict Censorship of Cell Phones Comes with Threat of Death Penalty 2021.04.27
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Kim Regime’s Crackdown on Individual Business Activities Begins: Ruthless Confiscation of Goods Forces Traders to Consider Defection 2021.04.26
Politics Kim Jong-un Regime Fears Digital Resistance: less than 0.1% of N. Koreans Can Access the Internet (ISHIMARU Jiro) 2021.04.19
Society / Economy COVID-19 <Inside N. Korea> “Coronavirus Comes from the Sea”: Impoverished Fishermen Forced to Sell their Ships to Survive 2021.04.14
Society / Economy COVID-19 <Inside N. Korea> Kim Jong-un Regime Orders Emergency Import of Medicine: Many Dead due to Collapse of Medical Care Under Coronavirus Restrictions 2021.04.12
Military <Inside N. Korea> Military Cuts (Part 3): Enlistment Rate Crashes as Malnutrition Plagues Military 2021.04.09
Military <Inside N. Korea> Military Cuts (Part 2): Frustrations Rise Amid Forced Deployment of Discharged Soldiers to Farms and Coal Mines 2021.04.05
Military <Inside N. Korea>Military Cuts (Part 1): Military service for men cut from 13 to 8 years... What are Kim Jong-un's intentions? 2021.04.02
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Agricultural Materials in Short Supply as Farmers Predict Disastrous Harvest 2021.03.30
Military COVID-19 COVID-19 and the Military (Part 2): “1 Thermometer Per Company”...Soldiers and Families Struggle to Cope with Harsh Military Quarantine Measures 2021.03.16
Military COVID-19 COVID-19 and the Military (Part 1): Starving Soldiers Shoot Stray Livestock and Desert to Survive Depleting Rations 2021.03.15