Daily Life in North Korea

Cooperative farms nationwide are planting, and industrial art exhibition ended, Pyongyang goes cycling and in international news, a U.S. aircraft crashes while brush fires ravage California. [...]

In her second dispatch from New York City, our North Korean in NYC writes about the differences between holiday celebrations in the big apple and the DPRK. [...]

Willem van der Bijl was arrested in North Korea on July 30 2012 during his 24th trip. Little was said about his arrest or alleged offense and he was released just a few weeks later. NK News caught up with him in Utrecht to find out more. [...]

A change in the political climate in the United States played a role in the breakdown of development projects in the DPRK following the famine of the mid-1990s, a United Nations representative says. [...]

A United Nations representative to the DPRK during the nation’s horrific mid-1990s famine believes that the arrival of aid from foreign donors saved many lives, but that distrust prevented sustainable economic development. [...]

A North Korean now living in New York City tells NK NEWS how street food between the two places compares [...]

Park Ji Woo was born in North Korea and escaped with her mother when she was 9 years old. Today Park is 24 and studies English in New York City. [...]

Part 1 of our special series on North Korean women introduced the female iconography of the DPRK. In this second part, we explore the various roles of North Korean women and the realities of their daily lives. [...]

Canadian Erich Weingartner recounts how he helped set up an exclusive foreigner only bar in Pyongyang, called the "Random Access Club". [...]

Though it sounds like the start of a bad joke, North Korea does, indeed, have a nightlife. “It’s not just going to rallies,” says Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours, a Beijing-based travel outfitter specializing in North Korea. “There is such a thing as leisure time, at least for people in Pyongyang and in certain other [...]