The diverging trajectories of North Korea’s state and society over the last year are striking. The government has reaped ...

One defector said soldiers were given just three bullets each during the rare shooting drills. Read more at straitstimes.com.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a regional hospital, highlighting the wide gap ...

GANGHWA COUNTY, South Korea: For South Koreans living close to the North, life has been unbearable for months. Every day since July last year, loudspeakers on the other side of the inter-Korean ...

In July 1972, the South and North Korea ... living in secrecy in the United States or Europe. “Power concentrates only on one person,” Kang said. “Kim Pyong Il can live out his natural life ...

Constant propaganda as well as limited access to ammunition — or even toilet paper — were the stark realities of being in North Korea's army ... It was a grueling life — one in which ...

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 ...

North Korea conducted another missile test while ... Cameron Diaz calls Hollywood retirement 'the best 10 years of my life,' but says she would have been 'a fool' to not come back I Asked 5 ...

Technically, the two countries are still at war, despite a 70-plus-year-old armistice that North Korea has publicly revoked ... to piracy to make a lucrative living. Capturing the Dai Hong Dan ...

a down on her luck amusement park employee who was seemingly forced to leave her family behind during an escape from North Korea. Living out of her car, No-eul spends her days sweating in a full ...

Andrei Lankov, The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist ... and tacitly imagines himself living under such heavy restrictions. But he does not tell the reader that these ...