North Korea’s 4G launch: Pyongyang first in phased rollout
17 hours ago · North Korea launched 4G mobile service in September 2023, but initially service was only available in a few major cities, including the capital of Pyongyang. “Kangsong Net will begin providing 4G mobile service,” said a notice posted on the Kangsong Mobile Communications 3.0 mobile app on Sept. 8, 2023. Daily NK confirmed the notice had ...
Turf war: Inside N. Korea’s crackdown on money brokers
17 hours ago · According to a Daily NK source in South Hamgyong province recently, a money transfer broker and a North Korean defector’s family were simultaneously arrested on Oct. 31 in the city. The broker, a man surnamed Kim, had traveled to Hamhung to deliver money to a defector’s family at the request of their relative in South Korea.
China halts North Korean trade applications as Pyongyang ...
2 days ago · November 12, 2024. A cargo truck is crossing over the Yalu River from Sinuiju, in North Korea’s North Pyongan Province, to Dandong, in China’s Liaoning Province, on a steel bridge known as the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge. (©Daily NK) Chinese customs officials in Dandong have stopped processing North Korean trade applications since late ...
Satellite images reveal progress in hospital projects in ...
3 days ago · November 11, 2024. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a ceremony celebrating the start of construction of Pyongyang General Hospital on Mar. 13, 2020. (Rodong Sinmun - News1) Two large hospitals are being built in the Taedong River District of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. I recently examined progress on the hospitals through satellite ...
Mounting fatigue among N. Korean students over increased ...
1 day ago · Students in cities such as Hoeryong are expressing fatigue over the increased frequency of these indoctrination sessions. According to a source in North Hamgyong Province recently, a lecture entitled “Reinforcing the Principles of Unwavering Class Consciousness and Class Struggle” was held for middle and high school students in Hoeryong on ...
Patience wears thin as Jagang province's displaced enter 3rd ...
3 days ago · North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported on Oct. 22 that “Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave field guidance at the construction site for rehabilitating the flood-hit areas in Jagang province on Oct. 21” and that “that a decision would be made to prolong the completion of the housing projects for the disaster areas, scheduled to be finished by early …
North Korean province cuts market hours for land management ...
2 days ago · North Hamgyong province has ordered reduced market hours through November to mobilize merchants and residents for land management projects. A source in the province told Daily NK that the party committee’s Nov. 2 directive requires merchants and neighborhood watch unit members in Chongjin and surrounding areas to participate in the work.