Xi Jinping's visit to North Korea has Hyesan residents hoping for a turning point — Chinese capital, mineral deals, factories, tourism, anything to ease the economic squeeze.

https://www.dailynk.com/english/xi-jinpings-visit-to-north-korea-sparks-hope/

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North Korea quietly softened punishment for officials' families caught watching foreign content — even as ordinary citizens have faced execution for the same offense.

https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-foreign-content-law-enforcement-directive/

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North Korea has ordered its top rice-growing region, the Hwanghae provinces, to file detailed transplanting reports ahead of a Workers' Party plenum that Kim Jong Un himself will chair.

https://www.dailynk.com/english/rice-transplanting-report-hwanghae-fear/

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Pet ownership was once "bourgeois" in North Korea. Then Kim Jong Un and daughter Ju Ae toured a Pyongyang pet shop on state TV — and the criticism disappeared.

https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-pet-culture-wealth-gap/

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North Korea built new homes to draw workers to mining and farming towns. Within two years, many sit abandoned and stripped bare.

https://www.dailynk.com/english/newly-built-homes-north-korea-turn-into-ruins/

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