The son of traitorous parents, a member of North Korea's "hostile class", the lowest of the low and smeared for life. He was also one of the thousands who tried to escape North Korea's brutal ...

Even under heavy surveillance, defectors have taken to the skies to escape North Korea. In 1953, Lt. No Kum-sok flew a Soviet MiG-15 jet to Gimpo Air Base in South Korea, a story later chronicled ...

all that North Korea could do was issue belligerent threats against its imagined enemies. The reality, of course, is that Pyongyang's imagined enemies are actually the ones who most wish to help the ...

Officials' wives are increasingly taking jobs in road maintenance to avoid mandatory labor assignments, Daily NK has learned.

Separately, Ukraine revealed more details about the first two North Korean soldiers it has captured alive and said it was ...

"Back in the Vietnam War, North Korean air force pilots were sent there, but their planes weren't equipped with parachutes or ...

There is mounting evidence from the battlefield, intelligence reports and testimonies of defectors that some North Korean ...

North Korea's state-run media called its southern neighbor a "fascistic dictatorship" and said its president declared martial law to escape a crisis. Russia is treating North Korean troops well ...

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 ...