What flashed through my mind were images of North Korea. There, in a real totalitarian state, children are bred like livestock in labor camps. They are taught to betray their parents.

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.

Real Estate. What life in North Korea holds for US soldier Travis King after defecting By . Zachary Kussin. Published July 19, 2023. Updated July 24, 2023, 12:14 p.m. ET.

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 ...

A 2017 rally in North Korea celebrating the birth of the nation. Writer Travis Jeppesen chronicles his time inside the secretive country in ‘See You Again in Pyongyang.’ ...

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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 ...

For a glimpse into life in North Korea, take a peek into the country’s math textbooks.“During the Fatherland Liberation War [North Korea’s official name for the Korean War] the brave uncles ...

The horrific brutality of life in North Korea is laid bare in a UN report, which describes how the state maintains a climate of fear through executions, enforced disappearances and starvation.

SEOUL — When Kim Hak Min lived in North Korea, every home prominently displayed a photo of the isolated nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung, as well as his son and successor, Kim Jong Il. Now that ...

A wrong turn on a controlled press tour in North Korea' s ... In North Korea, it's hard to know what's real. ... and life here is vastly better than it is for most people in the countryside.

An entire North Korean family, including a two-year-old infant, was sentenced to life in prison after officials found a Bible in the parents’ possession, according to the US State Department.