Hwang Hyun-uk

2 weeks ago | dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Hwang Hyun-uk

When “A,” a North Pyongan province woman, first heard her son in the military had been deployed to Russia, she assumed he was just there for training. “Another soldier in our son’s unit wrote that he’d gone to train overseas in a big, cold country,” “A” told Daily NK. But as time passed, rumors began circulating in the neighborhood that North Korean troops had gone overseas.

2 weeks ago | dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Hwang Hyun-uk

North Korea is preparing to send up to 28,000 more workers overseas. Recruitment efforts that began last year have entered the selection phase as Pyongyang seeks to boost foreign currency earnings by exploiting gaps in international sanctions. The latest deployment will send workers to more than 10 countries, with Russia receiving the vast majority, a Daily NK source in North Korea said recently.

1 month ago | dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Hwang Hyun-uk

“I cut myself trimming frozen pollack. I was bleeding badly and it hurt a lot, but they just put a band-aid on it and I went back to work.”A North Korean worker at a seafood processing plant in Liaoning province, China, expressed her frustration when asked about working conditions. According to her, workers must pay for most medical treatment, so when they’re seriously injured, they quickly patch up their wounds and continue working.

Mar 27, 2025 | dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Hwang Hyun-uk

North Korea’s cyber capabilities have evolved dramatically in recent years, progressing beyond simple hacking to encompass public opinion manipulation, military technology theft, and cryptocurrency mining. The country increasingly deploys IT workers in sophisticated “asymmetric operations” that face few geographic or temporal constraints and are difficult to trace. The regime recently established the “227 Research Center” under the Reconnaissance General Bureau of the Korean People’s Army.

Feb 13, 2025 | dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Hwang Hyun-uk

“Work harder, pay more, keep less” – this is the grinding reality for North Korean workers in Chinese factories, where a complex web of state quotas and mandatory contributions strips away their wages despite Pyongyang’s hollow promises of worker protection. In frigid seafood processing plants along China’s northeastern coast, women laborers watch their monthly earnings evaporate into an ever-growing list of state demands, leaving them barely enough to survive.