The scheme involved thousands of workers who were dispatched by the North Korean government to find work as remote IT ...

North Korea's "Jangmadang Generation" grew up facing immense hardship after a devastating famine. Now those fortunate few who escaped find the skills they used to survive rather helpful in ...

North Korea’s government and state media have said little about the construction at the border, ... Up to 80 percent of North Koreans depend on informal markets known as jangmadang for daily ...

A network of jangmadang, free markets that run on illicit trade between North Korea and China, became the main source of income for vast swathes of the population.

For many North Koreans, local markets, or 'jangmadang,' have been places for their desperate survival amid chronic dearths of food and other necessities following the collapse of a state ration ...

North Korea will open a tourist site on its east coast next week that it calls a prelude to a new era in its tourism industry ...

Japan-based North Korea-focused media outlet Asia Press reported Wednesday that the price of rice at jangmadang — North Korea’s informal markets — nearly doubled from the 4,000-5,000 North ...

The United Nations-backed atomic watchdog warned a building under construction resembles a long-suspected nuclear enrichment ...

The uneasy truce between the nuclear-armed North and the US-allied South remains one of the most vexing security concerns for ...