This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are rarely ...

Since late 2023, the Kim Jong Un regime has been axing organizations and symbols associated with unification with Seoul.

experience life abroad, they come to see North Korea as nothing short of a prison,” Ahn said. “Once they realize what freedom ...

BEST OF 2020: Magnum photographer Carl De Keyzer is one of very few to have been given unprecedented access to Democratic People's Republic of North Korea ... to take a tour inside the world's ...

Convicted under South Korea’s National Security Act, the unnamed men had been operating as agents of North Korea’s Cultural Exchange Bureau – a benign-sounding front for the 225th Department ...

“Self-detonation and suicides: that’s the reality about North Korea,” said Kim, a 32-year-old former North Korean soldier who defected to the South in 2022, requesting he only be identified ...

A North Korean "trash balloon" landed inside the South Korean presidential compound in the capital Seoul on Thursday amid rising tensions between the two neighbors. Around 3,000 North Korea soldiers ...

Daily NK, a South Korean website that monitors North Korea with its own sources inside the communistic regime ... forces that discloses North Korea’s “contempt for human life,” including the lives of ...