Hyunseung Lee and his family defected from North Korea in 2014 after a series of violent executions by North Korea's leader, ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained after a massive law enforcement operation at the presidential compound ...

A former prosecutor who led the conservative People Power Party (PPP) to election victory in 2022, Yoon could face the death ...

Medieval Crowns and Scepters Discovered Hidden Inside the Walls of a Crypt Beneath ... obviously' shouldn't be pardoned Researchers Study Life After Death — And It Gets Weirder SpaceX set ...

North Korean troops, unacknowledged by their own country, are getting chewed up in a vicious war in which, far from home, ...

Many people in North Korea are suffering from malnutrition and much of the country lives in extreme poverty. Here's what daily life is like. Kyiv said it found foreign-made parts inside North ...

Despite holding South Korea’s second-highest office after the presidency, the assembly’s speaker has historically had a low-profile role, operating behind the scenes of political life.

NORTH Korean soldiers are brutally “executing” their wounded comrades to stop them being captured by Ukraine, according to ...

Gen. Kwak Jong-keun to have his troops storm the Assembly and arrest opposition lawmakers: “Break the door down right now and get in there and drag out the people inside,” Yoon demanded ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

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 ...

After being considered the No. 2 official in North Korea, Kim Yong Ju was effectively ... but he live the second half of his life mainly in obscurity, often in a remote part of the country ...