In these swindles, con artists charge between 50,000 and 100,000 Chinese yuan ($6,900 to $13,800) to learn whether the ...

In recent years, photographers have captured everyday life in North Korea. The images give a rare glimpse into the completely isolated nation. Many are bleak, while others seem like they could have ...

North Korea’s military is using stories of soldiers who detonated themselves in the Russia-Ukraine war as indoctrination material.

Daily life in North Korea is unlike anything you could imagine. You have to see for yourself to believe. Check out today's ...

North Korea is home to about 26 million people who are taught to worship their leaders as gods. The country is culturally and economically isolated as many suffer from malnutrition and poverty. Many ...

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... What Daily Life In North Korea Looks Like AUDIE CORNISH ...

Andrei Lankov, The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia (New York: Oxford University Press), 304 pp., $27.95. NORTH KOREA is routinely described as unknowable—“the most ...

Will North Korea give up its nukes? Leaders avoid specifics after historic summit between north and south Kim Jong Un makes history to cross border. The rival Koreas fought one of the 20th century's ...

The "hermit kingdom" of North Korea is coming out of isolation, finally welcoming Western tourists again, after sealing its borders at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, a limited number ...

Newsweek has created a map that highlights a sobering reality for parts of the United States: in dozens of U.S. counties, average life expectancy is now lower than that of North Korea. Life expectancy ...

Nuclear threats, human rights complaints and political strife constantly keep North Korea in the news. Here are more a dozen charts that help explain the North Korea we know today.