Trafficked into the sex industry after defecting from North Korea, two young women spent years in captivity before finally getting the chance to escape. From the third floor of a residential tower ...

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

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 ...

It referred to Yoon as a "puppet" who proclaimed martial law "in a bid to escape from the worst ruling crisis." Kim Jong Un exerts near-total control over North Korea's population, using extensive ...

The vast majority are men whose passports are confiscated once they enter Russia and whose wives and children must remain in ...

"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 ...

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

Ukraine’s president released a video of the two soldiers being interrogated, revealing they knew little about the war they ...

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 ...

While South Korea experiences historic domestic political turmoil, Kim Jong Un and his regime continue to threaten peace and ...