Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Even the police face temporary cut in rations due to financial troubles… “In May, they had no choice but to buy food on credit” 2023.08.07
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> Daycares and preschools stop providing meals due to financial troubles…Parents facing demands for rice and money protest by turning their backs on the schools, sending their kids to neighbors instead 2023.08.04
Military <Investigation>100 soldiers surround farming community of 500 farmer to prevent stealing of crops…Military-Farmer relations improved 2023.08.02
Military <Inside N.Korea> Spring wheat harvest is finished and delivered to the army・・・Farmers rebel without their share 2023.07.31
Photo <Photo Report> A visit to a North Korea-China trade hub…Freight trucks line up to head into North Korea, but drivers not allowed to leave vehicles 2023.07.28
Movie Interview About Conditions Inside North Korea Pt.2 -What people think about the satellite launch- 2023.07.26
Movie Interview About Conditions Inside North Korea Pt.1 -Is it true that people have died of starvation?- 2023.07.26
Society / Economy ASIAPRESS asks a Chinese businessman how North Korean business is doing: “North Korean labor is of more interest than trade” 2023.07.25
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
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea> The Kim Jong-un regime prevents news of frequent suicides from spreading 2023.07.14
Society / Economy <Investigation Inside N. Korea>Famine in the provinces : “Many people have died from the start of May due to starvation and disease…” (4) Old parents and children are abandoned, and frequent robberies occur…People are scared 2023.05.30
Society / Economy <Investigation Inside N. Korea>Famine in the provinces : “Many people have died from the start of May due to starvation and disease…” (3) The authorities treat starvation deaths as deaths by disease…some people even eat bark from pine trees to survive 2023.05.27
Society / Economy <Investigation Inside N. Korea>Famine in the provinces : “Many people have died from the start of May due to starvation and disease…” (2) Workers can’t go to work due to malnutrition…even at the DPRK’s largest iron mine 2023.05.22
Society / Economy <Investigation Inside N. Korea>Famine in the provinces : “Many people have died from the start of May due to starvation and disease…” (1) The state’s food supplies have hit rock bottom 2023.05.22
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
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>Violent young people form brotherhoods, causing fights to break out between different gangs…The authorities crackdown on young people who try to earn money outside of their assigned workplaces 2023.05.16
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
Society / Economy <Investigation>Increase in wandering homeless people throughout North Korea…poverty-stricken elderly people and children forced out into the streets, with some even dying…The authorities order thorough measures to be taken 2023.04.25
Society / Economy <Interview with N. Korean> Farm mobilizations start early this year amid orders to mobilize “every able-bodied person,” How about the situation on the ground 2023.04.24
Society / Economy <Inside N. Korea>The authorities strengthen punishments toward those engaging in the “non-socialist” practice of living together outside of marriage, even dragging violators in front of public trials and punishing them with forced labor 2023.04.20
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