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 ...

Much of what we know about North Korea comes in scattered fragments, cautiously smuggled out like those fleeing its ...

Of particular concern is how the law itself contradicts international human rights standards, especially regarding freedom of ...

North Korea has test-fired sea-to-surface strategic guided cruise missiles, state news agency KCNA has reported. The media service made the claim early on Sunday, adding that the weapons ...

A surrendering North Korean soldier risked his life by refusing to drop his sausage at gunpoint, according to the Ukrainian ...

Officials of national commissions, ministries and institutions stretch before running and Taekwondo demonstrations on the first Sports Day of the year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, ...