The term ‘Partisan’ is a Koreanized pronunciation of the Russian word ‘partizan,’ referring to guerrilla forces tasked with destroying key enemy facilities, seizing weapons and supplies, and ...

North Korea’s 2025 reopening exposes rare glimpses of its tightly controlled society, with the Pyongyang Marathon offering foreign runners the unique freedom to jog through the capital, unsupervised.

I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering ...

SEOUL – Another trial began on Dec 1 for former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, this time over his alleged involvement in South Korean military drones being flown over Pyongyang in 2024. The ...

TOKYO – Western video game titles such as the Call Of Duty and Counter-Strike first-person shooter series have proven popular among players at a recently established closed-network cybercafe in ...

North Korea is expected to remain largely impervious to Western diplomatic overtures for the foreseeable future as it rails against its rivals’ “hostile” policies. On Tuesday, North Korean state media ...

North Korea has a development plan aimed at building a socialist powerhouse by 2035, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper reported Wednesday. The Japan-based Choson Sinbo revealed the plan in a travelogue by its ...

In a rare display of unbridled excitement, residents of Pyongyang took to the streets Monday to celebrate North Korea's Under-17 women’s football team, which claimed the World Cup title by defeating ...

Satellite imagery has shown that a fire broke out at a large-scale building in central Pyongyang in early November, with the extent of the damage yet to be determined, a unification ministry official ...

The Pyongyang General Hospital, a long-cherished project of State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un, opened five and a half years after groundbreaking. Korean Central News Agency reports on the ...

Seoul is embracing nuclear-powered submarines after a nod from Donald Trump as South Korea tries to keep pace in an emerging arms race with North Korea. With the US eager to redefine the terms of its ...