askchapo @hexbear.net sexywheat [none/use name] @hexbear.net 8 mo. ago

North Korean news sources?

I get a lot of my news about the world from outlets like CGTN, Al Jazeera and Telesur but it occurred to me that I've not heard of any such news source out of Best Korea.

A quick search for English-language North Korean news brings up Pyongyang Times, but does anyone have any other recommendations?

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Phuong DPRK Daily

https://www.youtube.com/c/푸옹PhuongDPRKDaily
KCNA

DPRK Today

They tend to reprint things, there are also lots of TikTok and YouTube channels from people who live there, some are subtitled.
- Can you name a few of those YouTubers?
  
  Here's a candid downtown view
  
  YuMi who appears to have been scrubbed from YouTube but this channel archived her videos.
  
  There are more and they pop up occasionally, but it seems like YouTube is pretty quick to ban them if they're actually from DPRK because of the sanctions and embargos.
  
  It's also really hard to search because western propaganda fills the first 10 pages of results even if you type it in exactly.
  
  I know that Chinese sites have a lot more activity from DPRK folks, but it's definitely not in English.
  
  Here's another that got scrubbed
  
  And here's a propaganda video that shows the existence of others that have been a rubbed.