Daily NK
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Daily NK (Korean: 데일리NK, romanized: Deilli NK) is an online newspaper based in Seoul, South Korea,[1][2] 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. North Korea is ranked 177 out of 180 in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index, which is compiled by Reporters Without Borders.[3]
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Format | Online |
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President | Lee Kwang-baek |
Editor-in-chief | Ha Yu-na |
Founded | December 2004 (2004-12) |
Language | English, Korean, Chinese |
Headquarters | Seoul, South Korea |
Website | www |
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,[4] an NGO funded by the U.S. Congress. Daily NK's president is Lee Kwang-baek.[5] The amount of Daily NK's funding from the National Endowment for Democracy since 2016 is available in the public sphere.[6] 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.