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

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 there were no ...

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

North Korea closed its borders five years ago when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and they have remained shut ever since.

Lee, 38, a North Korean defector and former soldier now living in South Korea ... experience life abroad, they come to see North Korea as nothing short of a prison,” Ahn said.

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 ...

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 ...