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New cookie-cutter homes show North Korea’s ‘socialist fairyland’ aesthetic
A recent propaganda campaign on a newly-built model village offers a unique glimpse into North Korean urban planning
North Korea’s cafe culture is growing, but coffee is still a luxury brew
Coffee shops are cropping up in Pyongyang and prices are pushing new limits of what's "high-end"
Doctors Without Borders spends $1.4 million on TB hospitals, aid in North Korea
NGO details its spending for the first time since it returned to the country in 2019
North Korean man gets seven years of prison labor for Russian border assault
Russia doled out its harshest sentence yet for a 2019 incident involving 17 North Korean fisherman
North Korean man accused of money laundering appeals US extradition order
Mun Chol Myong’s appeal began in Kuala Lumpur High Court on Friday
‘The most colorful city I’ve ever been to’: New map explores Pyongyang design
A critic and photographer documents North Korean architecture in a rare, independently-produced travel guide
US charges North Korean father-daughter team with fraud and money laundering
One of the North Koreans charged was once a suspect in Kim Jong Nam’s assassination
Russia delivers 25,000 tons of aid to North Korea in second shipment of year
The volume of aid is the same as April’s delivery, likely approved before recent typhoons hit
US accuses two HK firms of selling $300M+ of American tech to North Korea
Couple used front companies to acquire millions of dollars worth of U.S. telecommunications equipment for North Korea
At least 20,000 North Koreans impacted by recent typhoons and floods, UN says
The conservative estimate is likely much higher because of damages seen at North Korea’s coastal city of Wonsan
