Yu Hyuk was just nine years old when he started begging on the streets of North Hamgyong, one of the poorest provinces in ...

All North Korean recruits are taught a song that includes a verse about saving their last bullet for themselves to avoid ...

Born in 1927 in what is now the North Korean town of Jaeryong, Song was among the possibly millions of North Korean refugees who escaped to the South during the 1950-53 Korean War. He began his ...

A pattern of tightening market controls and soaring prices has culminated in an ambitious government intervention – a ...