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 ...

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.

The defector, who escaped in 2019 at the age of 23, said that regardless of the risk, life in North Korea is not worth staying for - "It's better to die than to live this way" ...

Showing North Korean soldiers gazing across an icy river towards China and occasionally descending from looming watchtowers to prowl border paths, the photos present a unique look into life in one ...

'Beyond Utopia,' the Oscar-contending film directed by Madeleine Gavin, documents how difficult life is in North Korea and why many try to escape. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD.

Some of those living in North Korea have risked their lives to tell the BBC about how they're struggling to survive. Plus, Japan's main stock market index, the Nikkei 225, has been enjoying a ...

KENOSHA, Wisconsin -- The mother of a U.S. soldier held in captivity in North Korea says her life has transformed into a "big nightmare" because what happened to her son remains a mystery. Defense ...

Human Rights Watch states the case very clearly: North Korea “remains one of the most repressive countries in the world.” In a 2022 report, the nonprofit said, “The North Korean government ...

North Korea — which recently signed a mutual defense pact with Russia that has alarmed the West — views such exercises as a rehearsal for invasion, which the U.S. and its allies deny.. The ...