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North Korea enacts urban development law to provide better living conditions

North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament has enacted an urban development law aimed at modernizing city environments to provide ...

North Korea’s Population Crisis Warning Signs

The United Nations Population Division has estimated that about 12 percent of North Koreans are aged 65 or older. The U.N.
Human Rights Watch

Submission on North Korea’s Implementation of Recommendations from the Third and Fourth Cycles of the Universal Periodic Review for the Special Rapporteur’s Report

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...
Daily NK

North Korea’s price freeze in Kangwon province disrupts local markets

Kangwon province is enforcing a strict ban on individual vendors setting their own prices for products made at local ...

Decades-long efforts to send uncensored foreign news into North Korea face major setbacks

For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea.

India installs its first envoy in N. Korea since pandemic

A new Indian ambassador to North Korea has taken office, marking the return of an Indian envoy to Pyongyang for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, acco ...