North Korea, the highly isolated, totalitarian Asian nation, is home to certain unusual superlatives — but, for many inside its borders, living in luxury is far from them. And what reality holds ...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with North Korea expert Jean Lee about what daily life is like in the country and how much the average person knows about the upcoming summit between President Trump and ...

WASHINGTON -- Watching the media fawning over the North Korean delegation at the Pyeongchang Olympics, I recalled a picture that my old boss, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, kept under the ...

Everyday Life In North Korea NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sokeel Park of the refugee assistance group Liberty in North Korea about everyday life for North Koreans. Asia.

Here's a snapshot of life in North Korea: - Annual GDP per capita is about $1,800, which ranks 197th in the world, according to the CIA World Factbook. GDP is 28 times higher in the United States ...

23 dismal photos of everyday life in North Korea that a visiting photographer captured on his phone. ... It was canceled because of a dispute between North Korea and South Korea. Xiaolu Chu/Getty ...

South Korea exports total $552.6 billion, while the North's are just $4.71 billion. For every 1,000 live births in South Korea, 4.08 of the infants die on average. In the North, 26.21 die.

You didn’t come to America until your late 20s. Talk a little bit about what it was like for you growing up in North Korea. Lee: When I was in North Korea, I saw my life as just an ordinary citizen.

In fact, if the vignettes offered up in a just published New York Times exposée are at all representative of the life of your average North Korean, things are downright miserable.

North Korea is currently in the lead with a pole of 165 meters – one of the world’s largest. There is a village in the North Korean side of the DMZ, Kijong, where the flag pole is located.

He is the author of “The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia”. Andrei Lankov. Andrei Lankov is professor of Korean Studies at Kookmin University, Seoul.

Picking up trash on the islands, about 4-20 kilometers (2.5-12 miles) from North Korean territory, is a tough job. He most often visits Yeonpyeong, an island shelled by North Korea in an attack ...