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Daily NK
Daily NK (Korean: 데일리NK) is an online newspaper based in Seoul, South Korea, where it reports on various aspects of North Korean society from information obtained from inside and outside of North Korea via a network of informants.
The organization's president and editor-in-chief are South Korean, while its journalists are a mix of South Koreans and North Korean defectors. Daily NK is a recipient of funding from multiple institutions and private donors, including the National Endowment for Democracy, an NGO funded by the U.S. Congress. Daily NK's president is Lee Kwang-baek. The amount of Daily NK's funding from the National Endowment for Democracy since 2016 is available in the public sphere. The organization is part of a consortium with the Unification Media Group, which is a South Korea–based non-profit organization that produces and delivers radio content into North Korea via short-wave radio broadcasts.
Founded in December 2004 by South Korean Han Ki Hong and the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights, Daily NK covers stories pertaining to North Korea, with a focus on inside information and human rights issues. It publishes primarily in Korean, but also in English and Chinese. Its sources inside North Korea communicate with the main office using Chinese cell phones, while it also has several correspondents based in China who interview people coming and going across the Sino-North Korean border. It also carries stories from North Korean defectors and monitors the output of the North Korean media. The organization is well known for publishing prices of commodities in North Korea - information deemed sensitive by the North Korean government - around once every two weeks.
The organization has a content sharing arrangement with The Diplomat, and has partnered up with the Transitional Justice Working Group. It also has a relationship with Factiva.
In late 2024, the Daily NK smuggled two North Korean smartphones out of the country. The Haeyang 701 and Samtaesung 8, the two smartphones obtained by Daily NK, were analyzed in 2025 by technology YouTuber Mrwhosetheboss.
Hwang Jang-yop, a leading political figure in North Korea prior to his 1997 defection, contributed a regular column to the site prior to his death in Seoul in 2010.
Thae Yong-ho, a diplomat from North Korea prior to his 2016 defection, also contributed a series of columns about North Korea-South Korea relations.
Andrei Lankov, a well-known Russian scholar of North Korean affairs, occasionally publishes columns through the site, mainly in Korean.
Daily NK
Daily NK (Korean: 데일리NK) is an online newspaper based in Seoul, South Korea, where it reports on various aspects of North Korean society from information obtained from inside and outside of North Korea via a network of informants.
The organization's president and editor-in-chief are South Korean, while its journalists are a mix of South Koreans and North Korean defectors. Daily NK is a recipient of funding from multiple institutions and private donors, including the National Endowment for Democracy, an NGO funded by the U.S. Congress. Daily NK's president is Lee Kwang-baek. The amount of Daily NK's funding from the National Endowment for Democracy since 2016 is available in the public sphere. The organization is part of a consortium with the Unification Media Group, which is a South Korea–based non-profit organization that produces and delivers radio content into North Korea via short-wave radio broadcasts.
Founded in December 2004 by South Korean Han Ki Hong and the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights, Daily NK covers stories pertaining to North Korea, with a focus on inside information and human rights issues. It publishes primarily in Korean, but also in English and Chinese. Its sources inside North Korea communicate with the main office using Chinese cell phones, while it also has several correspondents based in China who interview people coming and going across the Sino-North Korean border. It also carries stories from North Korean defectors and monitors the output of the North Korean media. The organization is well known for publishing prices of commodities in North Korea - information deemed sensitive by the North Korean government - around once every two weeks.
The organization has a content sharing arrangement with The Diplomat, and has partnered up with the Transitional Justice Working Group. It also has a relationship with Factiva.
In late 2024, the Daily NK smuggled two North Korean smartphones out of the country. The Haeyang 701 and Samtaesung 8, the two smartphones obtained by Daily NK, were analyzed in 2025 by technology YouTuber Mrwhosetheboss.
Hwang Jang-yop, a leading political figure in North Korea prior to his 1997 defection, contributed a regular column to the site prior to his death in Seoul in 2010.
Thae Yong-ho, a diplomat from North Korea prior to his 2016 defection, also contributed a series of columns about North Korea-South Korea relations.
Andrei Lankov, a well-known Russian scholar of North Korean affairs, occasionally publishes columns through the site, mainly in Korean.
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