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 ...

The North Korean government monitors citizens so closely, Hyun-Seung Lee says, he couldn't speak freely even in his own home.

A businessman who worked in North Korea says it's not all repression and poverty.

Photos show daily life in remote parts of North Korea and its capital, Pyongyang. Slogans and propaganda are common sights on buildings.

North Korea, the highly isolated, totalitarian Asian nation, is home to certain unusual superlatives — but, for many inside its borders, living in luxury is far from them. And what reality holds ...

Todor Merdjanov spent one month at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang in 2013. He wants more people to know what the country ...

A new book reveals that the leader's maternal grandfather was a Japan-based smuggler who had to flee to North Korea to escape ...

In her memoir, Jihyun Park recounts a harrowing escape from North Korea — one of the most secretive and oppressive regimes in the world.

From the BBC World Service: It's arguably the most secretive and isolated country on Earth. North Korea has cut itself off from the outside world, and its borders have been sealed for three years ...

North Korea is a secretive state known as the "hermit kingdom" - but now a 25-year-old North Korean defector has lifted the lid on the totalitarian regime. "It's better to die than to live this ...