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Some newly built homes in North Korea’s coal mining and farming regions are being abandoned within two years of being occupied, with the empty houses quickly becoming targets for thieves and deteriorating into eyesores, a source in South Pyongan province told Daily NK on Tuesday. “Cases
A growing number of North Korean people are keeping pets, fueling rising sales of specialized dog food, clothing and other supplies in 2026. Pet ownership, once condemned as a capitalist habit, has spread into a popular new lifestyle trend in recent months, but some North Korean people say it has al
North Korea’s central authorities ordered South and North Hwanghae provinces, the country’s leading rice-growing region, on June 9, 2026, to compile detailed rice-transplanting reports reviewing this year’s planting campaign, leaving provincial agricultural officials gripped by fea
North Korea secretly issued a seven-point directive on May 28, 2026, setting out revised enforcement guidelines for cases involving the consumption of foreign media content — with provisions that effectively soften penalties for officials’ family members and others with loyalist credentials, a