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5 days ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Dasl Yoon |Mun Dong Hui |Iqbal Survé |Lee Sang Yong
Quotes of the Day:"The fish never discovers that it lives in water. In fact, since he lives immersed in it, his life goes by without noticing its existence. Similarly, behavior that is normalized in a dominant cultural setting becomes invisible." – Michael Foucalt"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles."– Fyodor Dostoevsky"Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."– Eugene Ionesco1.
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1 week ago | 
dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong
North Korea recently broke its silence and acknowledged deploying troops to Russia, despite previously maintaining silence amid reports from Ukraine and South Korea. This unexpected shift raises several important questions about the regime’s strategy. Official Procedures and State LegitimacyRather than coming directly from Kim Jong Un, the announcement emerged as a written statement from the Central Military Commission.
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1 week 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.
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1 month ago | 
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.
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1 month ago | 
dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Lee Sang-yong
North Korea began selecting workers and technicians in early March for reconstruction projects in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, including the Donbas region. These labor assignments, already agreed upon with Russia, appear designed to earn foreign currency while strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries. A source in North Korea told Daily NK recently that the country is reviewing plans to send groups of 1,000–2,000 workers for Ukrainian reconstruction projects.
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2 months ago | 
dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Lee Sang-yong
As the Trump administration pushes to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, North Korean officials are developing plans to maintain a military alliance with Russia even after the conflict concludes. A North Korean source told Daily NK recently that Pyongyang’s position is that its military strategy isn’t influenced by specific events. This stance suggests that North Korea fundamentally intends to continue developing its military alliance with Russia.
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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.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Lee Sang-yong
The White House’s disclosure during a briefing late last year that around 1,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to Russia had been killed or wounded shocked the international community. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service likewise determined that around 10,000 North Korean troops had been sent to the front line in Russia’s Kursk region, and approximately 1,000 had been killed or wounded.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Lee Sang-yong
Daily NK has learned that North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), which oversees espionage operations in South Korea and abroad, deployed several hundred agents to the Russia-Ukraine War in early November. The deployment of specialized infiltration and reconnaissance units appears aimed at strengthening North Korea’s comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia, according to a source inside North Korea who spoke with Daily NK last Thursday.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
dailynk.com | Lee Sang Yong |Lee Sang-yong
North Korea is enforcing strict secrecy around casualties among its troops fighting in Russia. A source within the Korean People’s Army’s 11th Corps revealed that internal protocols exist to quietly handle soldier deaths, with families receiving limited details and the public kept entirely in the dark. “Even when troops perish during training, they are interred on a hill close to their base or cremated, with their families merely informed of their death in the line of duty,” stated the source.
