South Korea's military suspects North Korea is preparing to send more troops to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces, following ...

North Korea is criticizing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s description of the country as a "rogue state," calling ...

Little is still known about North Korea and life behind the totalitarian curtain. Katharina Zellweger visited North Korea for the first time in 1995 and has since been to the country around 70 times, ...

(L-R) The national flag of North Korea (Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi), The ... hotel represents the gap between the reality of everyday life for civilians, and what the regime want to present to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean defector and the author of "The Girl With Seven Names." She tells us what life was really like in North Korea until she fled at the ...

Hyunseung Lee, a former soldier who fled North Korea, told BI that those sent to fight against Ukraine have "zero ...

North Korea's spy satellite is "alive," defying skeptics who believed the device was space debris, a Netherlands-based space expert says. The satellite was tracked "jumping" to a higher orbit ...

All North Korean recruits are taught a song that includes a verse about saving their last bullet for themselves to avoid ...

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 rarely ...

Meanwhile, his oldest son and Kim Jong Un's half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, found life in North Korea oppressive. Kim Jong Un was quickly promoted up the political and military ladder, despite lacking ...

In this video former prisoners and their captors expose the horror of life inside North Korea's prison camps. They describe forced abortions, impossibly hard labour, starvation and prisoners forced to ...