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, ...

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

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 ...