The directive, officials said, is meant to “consciously promote North Korean vocabulary” and avoid cultural infiltration ...

In the late 1990s, there was a glimpse of hope for peace in the Korean Peninsula, albeit brief. While the South struggled to ...

The worker says US agents failed to inform detainees of their rights, placed them in crowded, unsanitary cells and mocked ...

Kim Jong-un blames Russia for heavy casualties in Ukraine, but an expert believes the rare disclosure reflects fragility in ...

Ottawa will favour the pitch that creates the most Canadian jobs when it decides whether to award a contract for a dozen new ...

The Grand Eastern Hotel in Labasa has expanded its capacity, helping to ease the shortage of accommodation for travelers and guests in the North. Hotel operator, Charan Jeath Singh, confirmed that the ...

A new United Nations report finds that the North Korean government has increased the use of surveillance, forced labor, and severe punishments over the past decade, maintaining “total control” over ...

In North Korea, by contrast, watching a gripping TV drama can cost you your life. Under the “Anti-Reactionary Thought Law" of 2020, no North Korean may consume, possess or distribute the “rotten ...

More and more North Koreans are being sentenced to death for consuming audiovisual material that has not passed through ...

South Korea will launch a full-scale investigation into the legality of the arrests and the human rights conditions ...

Extreme weather is damaging North Korea’s agricultural production, with stunted corn crops in key provinces raising concerns ...

As a military propagandist, he fled the North by jumping off a train. In the South, he broadcast forbidden outside news to ...