Explore the tightly controlled and secretive world of Kim Jong-il’s North Korea. From daily struggles to the regime’s powerful propaganda, uncover the hidden truths about life under his rule and the ...
Hyunseung Lee and his family defected from North Korea in 2014 after a series of violent executions by North Korea's leader, ...
This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are ...
While South Korea experiences historic domestic political turmoil, Kim Jong Un and his regime continue to threaten peace and ...
Budae-jjigae, a spicy noodle soup that became popular in North Korea after being imported from South Korea, is just one example of how the country’s regime has cracked down on foreign influences.
NORTH Koreans are being made to file through booby-trapped fields and blown up one-by-one like human mine detectors, a ...
However, accounts from North Korean defectors indicated in 1975 that ... “Kim Pyong Il can live out his natural life peacefully if he keeps silent and never raises his voice.” ...
President Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, used to put people in jail. Now, after his formal arrest, he himself is in a ...