Daily NK

Daily NK (Korean: 데일리NK, romanized: Deilli NK) 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. North Korea is ranked last out of 180 in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index, which is compiled by Reporters Without Borders.

Daily NK
FormatOnline
PresidentLee Kwang-baek
Editor-in-chiefHa Yuna
FoundedDecember 2004 (2004-12)
LanguageEnglish, Korean, Chinese
HeadquartersSeoul, South Korea
Websitewww.dailynk.com

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.

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