In recent years, a wave of social media accounts has appeared claiming to show everyday life inside North Korea. Influencers film trips to water parks, restaurants, and schools—portraying a cheerful ...

North Korea is not isolated by accident but by design. Built on ideology absolute control and constant external threat the state shaped every part of life around survival and obedience. Geography war ...

Imagine living in North Korea. Then imagine your mother selling herself into a forced marriage in China to pay for your ...

Most of what we know about North Korea does not come through open reporting or official transparency. Information reaches the outside world in fragments, usually carried by defectors, foreign ...

North Korea places revolutionary ideology and the leader's authority above external rules. International law is an instrument for regime survival.

Attendance at North Korean political events is falling, especially among university students, raising questions about ideological control under Kim Jong Un.

An analysis of North Korean agricultural policy at the Ninth WPK Congress: grain targets, smart farms, livestock, and the new five-year plan.

The North Korean leader said that his country can get along well with the United States as long as Washington accepts it as a nuclear weapons state. By Choe Sang-Hun North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, ...

A North Carolina mother of three who vanished over two decades ago was found alive and living a new life — leaving her family reeling with questions over her whereabouts, according to authorities and ...

Pyongyang is pruning its diplomatic network to concentrate on the partners where sanctions enforcement is weakest and digital evasion infrastructure is already in place.

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Yoon Suk-yeol, the disgraced conservative president who tried to mount a coup against South Korea’s democracy in December 2024, has received a life sentence in prison. The popular resistance to Yoon ...