Turkmenistan, a Central Asian dictatorship, rivals North Korea with its bizarre rules. Journalists uncovered a nation where ...

Will the Kim regime be successful in uprooting this core element of North Korea’s black market economy? For decades, the ...

Most of us throw on jeans without a second thought. However, in North Korea, doing so could get you in serious trouble because denim is completely banned. But that's not all. Over the years, the ...

Last January, when two North Korean soldiers were captured as prisoners of war on the Ukrainian battlefield, neither North ...

Security experts, United Nations officials, and congressional leaders have for years insisted that in dealing with North Korea, its government’s systemic human rights abuses need to be addressed ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins U.S.-Korea Institute, about tourism to North Korea, and whether... North Korea Detains U.S. Student For 'Hostile Act' ARI ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea dealt a blow Tuesday to prospects for further multilateral talks aimed at curbing its nuclear weapons development, saying it will not allow Japan to participate in any ...

The mood music is building to a crescendo. This week Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator, spoke to his rubber-stamp parliament about his “fond memories” of meeting Donald Trump, with whom he held ...

People who have escaped from North Korea since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic have described severe repression and restrictions on economic activity. North Korean escapees’ accounts illustrate the ...

The emergence of an “Axis of Upheaval” consisting of revisionist states—which, to borrow language from former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, seek to “alter the foundational principles of the ...