Amid persistent rumors of currency redenomination, North Koreans are increasingly shunning the domestic won in favor of ...

Born in 1941 in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, now in North Korea, Han started playing the piano at age 3. His father was a musician who later became a timpanist for the Seoul Philharmonic ...

Born in 1941 in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, now in North Korea, Han moved with his family -- led by his father, a timpanist -- to Seoul in 1946. After the 1950-53 Korean War, he left for New ...

Early last week, the last units of the X Corps column reached Hamhung after a skillful fighting retreat from the Changjin reservoir to the Sea of Japan. Some of the survivors wore colored silk ...

When Aiko Nakamoto joined a repatriation program to North Korea in 1960, it never crossed her mind it would take nearly 60 years before she saw her beloved younger sister again. That reunion ...

Oct 29, 2016 Oct 29, 2016 Updated Dec 28, 2022 For 50 years John Haffeman kept it bottled up. He felt ashamed, he said. “I felt a strange feeling, like no one would listen to me if I said ...

According to the North Koreans, Mickey Mouse is Chinese while Coca-Cola is a local drink Unfortunately, they didn't quite get Coca-Cola's name right, calling it Crabonated Cocoa instead The USA ...