WASHINGTON -- Watching the media fawning over the North Korean delegation at the Pyeongchang Olympics, I recalled a picture that my old boss, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, kept under the ...

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 ...

Life in North Korea is also unsafe in other ways. In 2014 and regarding residential property, officials made a rare apology for the collapse of an under-construction, ...

Pedro Pardo took photos of a remote part of North Korea's border from China's Jilin province. The images offer a bleak yet fascinating look at life in a country shrouded in secrecy.

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

In the 1990s, North Korea was devastated by a famine — state propaganda called it the “Arduous March” — that saw rationing, blackouts and no running water — and up to 3 million deaths. 11 ...

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

News; World news; North Korea; Life inside secretive North Korea with permission needed to keep pets and have showers The defector, who escaped in 2019 at the age of 23, said that regardless of ...

In an attempt to develop a tourist economy, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrated the impending launch of Wonsan Kalma — ...

Life expectancy in North Korea—a country often cited for its economic hardship and limited healthcare access—stood at 72.6 years in 2021, according to the World Health Organization.