Daily NK

Daily NK is an online newspaper focusing on issues relating to North Korea. The site is based in South Korea, where it reports stories obtained from inside North Korea via a network of informants.
"Daily NK" is a recipient of funding from multiple institutions and private donors, including the National Endowment for Democracy, an NGO run by Carl Gershman and funded by the U.S. Congress. "Daily NK"s president is Lee Kwang-baek.
History.
Founded in December 2004 by 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, Chinese and Japanese. 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.
"Daily NK" reports are frequently cited by international media, and former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il's eldest son Kim Jong-nam described it as the most accurate source of inside information on North Korea, particularly the country's markets. Sometimes even South Korea's National Intelligence Service contacts "Daily NK" asking for information.
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, has also contributed a series of columns about North Korea-South Korea relations.
North Korea's National Reconciliation Council, in an official statement carried by KCNA, has criticized "Daily NK" for what it called "anti-DPRK smear campaigns," and Lee Chan-ho of the South Korean Ministry of Unification warned in 2010 that the “flood of raw, unconfirmed reports” from organizations including "Daily NK" "complicates efforts to understand the North."