This time last week, North Korea was still claiming to be one of three COVID-free countries worldwide. Now it’s facing a public health catastrophe.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilized the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain a fever that has reportedly killed dozens and sickened nearly a million others in a span of three days.

North Korea officially confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday and ordered a national lock down, with state media reporting a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron virus had been detected in the city of Pyongyang.

A North Korean defector sentenced to over three years in prison last month for giving information to Pyongyang says he was coerced into spying for the regime.

North Korean authorities are reviewing how well provincial trade bureaus have met their foreign currency quotas in the first quarter of the year and are auditing bureaus that failed to meet their quotas, Daily NK has learned.

A new report suggests that a small but vibrant group of smartphone hackers may be challenging the world's most digitally restrictive regime.

Large numbers of people were seen walking towards Kim Il Sung Square and nearby roads were blocked off late on Monday afternoon, informed sources told NK News, the latest signs that North Korea will imminently celebrate a key holiday with a military parade. Arterial bridges across the Taedong River that feed into the square were […]

Virgil Griffith was sentenced to five years in prison for undermining US sanctions on North Korea after presenting blockchain research in Pyongyang.

Weapon launch, supervised by Kim Jong Un, comes as US and S Korea warn that N Korea could soon resume nuclear testing.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened South Korea with nuclear retaliation if provoked after Seoul highlighted its supposed pre-emptive strike capabilities against the North. In a statement published by North Korea’s state media on Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong called South Korea defence minister Suh Wook’s recent comments about pre-emptive strikes a “fantastic daydream” and the “hysteria of a lunatic”.

Korea Future says evidence of widespread abuses in country’s prison camps, should be impetus to action.

North Korea fired suspected artillery pieces into the sea on Sunday, South Korea's military said, days after the North's latest missile launch ended in failure amid the country's recent burst of weapons testing activity. There is speculation that North Korea could soon try to launch its developmental longest-range ballistic missile to bolster its weapons arsenal and dial up pressure on the United States to wrest concessions amid stalled diplomacy. South Korea's military suggested North Korea's mid-air missile explosion last Wednesday involved parts of its Hwasong-17 missile, its biggest weapon.

U.S. President Joe Biden left North Korea out of his first State of the Union address Tuesday that laid out various challenges facing his country, including the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Conflict in Ukraine may provide cover for North Korea to conduct long-range missile testing free of punishment, analysts told NK News on Thursday, echoing South Korean presidential hopeful Yoon Suk-yeol’s remarks from earlier this week.

Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.

A North Korean cargo train has reportedly pulled into a Chinese border town in what would be the first confirmed crossing since its anti-coronavirus border lockdowns began. North Korea has not officially reported any Covid-19 cases and has imposed strict anti-virus measures, including border closures and domestic travel curbs since the pandemic began in early 2020.

North Korea is placing as much emphasis on producing manure as it is on firing missiles, and it doesn’t matter whether it comes from people or animals. While test-firing two missiles in less than a week, North Korea has been waging “the battle for manure,” which is far more vital for average North Koreans than the splash of another test-shot into the sea off the east coast.

The defence ministry said it carried out a search operation after detecting the person over the weekend on the eastern side of the DMZ separating the two Koreas.

North Korea has changed the way it carries out capital punishment in response to greater international scrutiny of its human rights, holding executions away from prying eyes to stop information filtering out, a rights group said on Wednesday.

Experts vote on a range of potential scenarios, from crisis and ongoing COVID-19 isolation to economic growth and more. Kim Jong Un has undoubtedly had some real policy-making successes in his first decade of power, but also some catastrophic blunders.