# Daily NK > Daily NK is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in South Korea. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Non-aligned**. - **Domain:** dailynk.com - **Website:** https://www.dailynk.com/english/ - **Country:** South Korea - **Region:** Asia - **Language:** English, with Korean and Chinese editions; the Japanese edition is run by a separate organisation - **Editorial position on TOLD:** Non-aligned - **Founded:** December 2004 ## About Daily NK covers one country and it is not the one it is registered in. From a Seoul office it runs a network of unnamed sources inside North Korea, nine of every ten stories resting on someone in a province who cannot be checked, and it states its purpose plainly: the North should change. Its biggest funder is an American democracy foundation, and in eight hundred headlines it barely mentions America at all. ## Profile - **Ownership:** Daily NK Co., Ltd., a for-profit joint-stock company registered as an internet newspaper in Seoul in 2005, sharing an address and its leadership with the non-profit Unification Media Group, which heads the consortium it belongs to; Lee Kwang Baek is president of both. Launched in December 2004 by the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights and later spun off. No state or party holds it, and the outlet states it has never been run by defectors, though it employs journalists originally from North Korea. - **Funding:** Names an American democracy endowment as its biggest donor and discloses the relationship on its own site; also holds United States State Department human rights grants. Sells North Korean market data to research institutions and government agencies, takes reader donations through the affiliated non-profit, and has accepted individual research commissions from South Korean state-funded bodies. No amounts are verifiable. - **Focus areas:** North Korean food supply and grain policy, market prices and exchange rates, crackdowns on foreign media and speech, policing, punishment and executions, cross-border trade with China, labour and troop deployments to Russia, and satellite analysis of military, nuclear and chemical sites. ## What the position means TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position. State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled. ## Latest headlines Read from this source's RSS feed. Follow the link to the newsroom that published it. - [North Korean youth embrace hand gestures to express emotion](https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-youth-hand-gestures-v-sign/) — 2026-08-30T21:13:00.000Z - [North Korea skims pay hike meant for workers sent to China](https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-workers-china-wages-take-home-pay/) — 2026-08-30T18:52:00.000Z - [As won crashes, rural North Koreans rush to buy dollars](https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-rural-foreign-currency-won-value/) — 2026-08-28T14:19:00.000Z - [Sinuiju flooding stalls North Korea-China cargo trade for days](https://www.dailynk.com/english/sinuiju-flooding-disrupts-north-korea-china-trade/) — 2026-08-28T13:07:00.000Z - [North Korea probes army corruption after soldiers found starving on construction sites](https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-military-malnutrition-corruption-probe/) — 2026-08-27T14:48:00.000Z - [Pyongyang car office workers busted for renting out state vehicles](https://www.dailynk.com/english/mangyongdae-motor-vehicle-office-car-rental-scheme/) — 2026-08-27T10:20:14.000Z - [Travel certificate bribes surge in North Korea as corruption crackdown bites](https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-travel-certificate-bribes-hoeryong/) — 2026-08-26T20:17:00.000Z ## Assessment note Latest assessment: 2026-08-19. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 11 (4 themes). 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