Much of what we know about North Korea comes in scattered fragments, cautiously smuggled out like those fleeing its ...

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 ...

Among untold levels of human rights abuse, indoctrination and brutal punishment, are the intense restrictions placed upon every aspect of daily life. Some of which are so ridiculous to be laughable; ...

Of particular concern is how the law itself contradicts international human rights standards, especially regarding freedom of ...

Experts believe a new male family member, who has been spotted in public for the first time, could be the sucessor of Kim Jong-un - who is rumoured to have more secret children ...

A surrendering North Korean soldier risked his life by refusing to drop his sausage at gunpoint, according to the Ukrainian ...

Officials of national commissions, ministries and institutions stretch before running and Taekwondo demonstrations on the ...