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 ...

Little is still known about North Korea and life behind the totalitarian curtain. Katharina Zellweger visited North Korea for the first time in 1995 and has since been to the country around 70 times, ...

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

(L-R) The national flag of North Korea (Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi), The ... hotel represents the gap between the reality of everyday life for civilians, and what the regime want to present to ...

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

The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) announced the results of its 2024 White Paper on Religious Freedom ...

One woman who was caught attempting to flee North Korea suffered abuse at the hands of a police official who was questioning her at a pre-trial detention facility, says the BBC. “My life was in ...

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 first Sports Day of the year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, ...