North Korea is poised to unveil a significant new coastal tourist resort next week, hailed by state media as a "prelude to a new era" for the country's tourism industry, despite its borders remaining ...
North Korea is home to about 26 million people who are taught to worship their leaders as gods. The country is culturally and economically isolated as many suffer from malnutrition and poverty. Many ...
A British traveler recently went viral after documenting his unique experience as one of the first Western tourists to visit North Korea in over half a decade. Mike O'Kennedy boasts more than half a ...
The "hermit kingdom" of North Korea is coming out of isolation, finally welcoming Western tourists again, after sealing its borders at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, a limited number ...
Since North Korean leader Kim Jong-un came to power, Pyongyang has seen a steady advancement in the sophistication of ...
Andrei Lankov, The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia (New York: Oxford University Press), 304 pp., $27.95. NORTH KOREA is routinely described as unknowable—“the most ...
Will North Korea give up its nukes? Leaders avoid specifics after historic summit between north and south Kim Jong Un makes history to cross border. The rival Koreas fought one of the 20th century's ...
Nuclear threats, human rights complaints and political strife constantly keep North Korea in the news. Here are more a dozen charts that help explain the North Korea we know today.