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Kim Jong Un is suffering alone during the national crisis, the government says.

North Korea has issued a warning to people not to speak about national leader Kim Jong Un's health after he recently lost weight, describing such discourse as a "reactionary act."

Construction projects in the capital prioritized as rural residents stumble in the dark.

HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By   (Photo : commons.wikimedia/ The Presidential Press and Information Office) Supreme North Korean leader Kim Jong Un orders farmers to give 2 liters of urine daily as a quota to be monitored. It came as a shortage of fertilizer followed after China stopped supplying North Korea. Kim Jong Un orders farmers to give 2 liters of urine daily for fertilizer material The North Korean leader just commanded that farmers and workers should give two liters of urine each day. I...

Residents living near construction sites in the North Korean capital must travel in large groups for safety.

This handout photo taken on September 19, 2019 and released on October 24 by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) shows farmer Ri Jong Gi, 50, working in a rice field in North Koreas South Hamgyong province. Finnish Red Cross / AFP North Korea regularly demands a lot from its citizens, from free labor at building sites to food donations for troops. But the latest order to farmers has them wetting themselves with scornful laughter: ...

Reuters North Korea is mobilizing recently discharged soldiers to toil away in coal mines and construction sites right after they have completed their grueling mandatory 10-year stint in the military, sources in the country told RFA. As it is still technically at war with prosperous South Korea, North Korea makes every male serve 10 years in the armed forces after finishing high school, and life in the North’s military involves a lot more than combat training. Soldiers are used ...

KCNA/via Reuters North Korea has ordered its farmers to begin planting crops, but many farms in the country have yet to be plowed due to a severe lack of adequate farming machinery, sources told RFA. During January’s Eighth Party Congress, the central government said that, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, North Korea had been too reliant on China for covering its food shortages, and that too much of its economy was dependent on cross-border trade. When Beijing and Pyongyang cl...

AP The North Korean capital Pyongyang has begun demolishing entire neighborhoods to make way for leader Kim Jong Un’s ambitious plan to construct 10,000 homes in the city by year’s end, but people displaced by the project have nowhere to live, sources in the capital told RFA. At a congress of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party in January, Kim unveiled a plan to alleviate a housing shortage in the country’s largest city by building with 50,000 new homes by the end of 2025, be...

Pressed to deliver 10,000 houses by year’s end, authorities drag women away from their familial responsibilities to work at night.