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North Korea observers believe worsening conditions are coinciding with a crackdown by the Pyongyang regime. Photograph: Jon Chol Jin/AP North Korea observers believe worsening conditions are coinciding with a crackdown by the Pyongyang regime. Photograph: Jon Chol Jin/AP Tue 4 May 2021 20.00 EDT North Korea is facing one of the worst economic crises in its 73-year history, amid shortages of food and medicines and warnings of rising unemployment and homelessness. The country’s economy has been battered by more than a year of border restrictions imposed after the coronavirus outbreak, floodin...

＜Inside N. Korea＞ Strong Censorship of Mobile Phones Begins: "Show me your mails and photos," forced in the market and at work. No mercy for police officers and executives. 2021.04.27 North Korea's new smartphone, the Purnhanul (Blue Sky). It is capable of taking photos and videos, but has been completely disabled from internet access (ASIAPRESS)   ◆Ignoring privacy in the name of "fighting non-socialism" The Kim Jong-un regime is censoring the country's cell phones with unprecedented intensity as part of its "fight against non-socialist phenomena". This is to guard against the spread ...

＜Inside N. Korea＞Big reduction in the number of soldiers (Part 1): Men's military service drastically reduced from 13 years to 8 years.   What are Kim Jong-un's intentions? 2021.04.02 (Photo) Young soldiers bathe and wash clothes along the Yalu River. Everyone is skinny. Photographed from the Chinese side of Sakju County, North Pyongan Province in July 2017 by Jiro Ishimaru. ◆ Promote deployment to understaffed rural coal mines According to a research conducted by our reporting partners living in the northern region, the length of service (military service) in the Korean People's Army...

Can Kim’s economic ambitions survive the COVID-19 pandemic? [Los Angeles Times :: BC-COVID-NKOREA-EEDITION:MCT] After declaring three years ago that his country fulfilled it decadeslong ambition to become a nuclear power, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un turned his attention to fixing an ailing economy that was undermining his pledge to better the lives of his people. Since then, despite heavy international sanctions restricting trade and most financial transactions, the economy has limped along. Prices remained relatively stable. Growth exceeded expectations. Kim appeared confident enough a...

Can Kim Jong Un’s economic ambitions survive the COVID-19 pandemic? [Los Angeles Times :: BC-NKOREA:LA] After declaring three years ago that his country fulfilled it decadeslong ambition to become a nuclear power, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un turned his attention to fixing an ailing economy that was undermining his pledge to better the lives of his people. Since then, despite heavy international sanctions restricting trade and most financial transactions, the economy has limped along. Prices remained relatively stable. Growth exceeded expectations. Kim appeared confident enough about his...