An curved arrow pointing right. In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they ...

In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they can and cannot photograph.

Little is still known about North Korea and life behind the totalitarian curtain ... which improved communication inside North Korea at least, and there are restaurants. Katharina Zellweger emphasized ...

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 ...

As tempers flare and threats fly, we take a tour inside the Hermit Kingdom… A Korean-American journalist recalls her journey to Pyongyang in 2016, flying with Air Koryo – North Korea’s only ...

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 ...

The uneasy truce between nuclear-armed North Korea and US-allied South Korea remains one of the most vexing security concerns ...

North Korean troops, unacknowledged by their own country, are getting chewed up in a vicious war in which, far from home, ...