An curved arrow pointing right. In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they ...

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In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they can and cannot photograph.

In this video former prisoners and their captors expose the horror of life inside North Korea's prison camps. They describe forced abortions, impossibly hard labour, starvation and prisoners forced to ...

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 ...

She said: "I don't know what's happening inside the prison camp ... now leading a wildly different life from her younger sibling. Just days after escaping North Korea, Cheol-ok was sold for ...

While some images were deleted during run-ins with the police, Chu shared some snapshots with us. Take a look at life inside North Korea.

Multiple defectors from North Korea spoke to NBC News about the mindset of soldiers sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

Even so, a combination of militancy, internal oppression, and the apparent support of regime elites mean that Kim Jong-un's government still has complete power over North Korea's people.

experience life abroad, they come to see North Korea as nothing short of a prison,” Ahn said. “Once they realize what freedom could mean, it’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t consider ...