Imagine living in the dictatorship of North Korea, hungry all the time, laboring for no pay. You decide to try to escape into ...

North Korea has unveiled one of its first-known statues of Kim Jong Un, using the "highly unusual" sculpture to depict the ...

Young North Koreans in Sinuiju are volunteering for construction brigades first to avoid permanent assignment to farms or ...

North Korea will hold an election on March 15 to pick delegates for its Supreme People's Assembly, KCNA state news agency ...

North Korea’s ninth Party Congress started on February 20, 2026, amid escalating repression of young people, strict control of information, and widespread forced labor.

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, was in particularly ebullient form as he opened the recent five-yearly congress of his Korean Workers’ Party.

North Korea’s housing push under Kim Jong Un may look like progress, but systemic barriers prevent construction from driving ...

A new UN report says life in North Korea has worsened over the past decade, with the regime using harsh laws and access to food to keep the population under control.The people of North Korea endure ...

The North Korean government has intensified repression inside the isolated, nuclear-armed state, expanding electronic surveillance and publicly executing people for sharing foreign media, the United ...

North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress defined the new Five-Year Plan as a “stage of stabilization and consolidation, and gradual qualitative development.” This framing should not be dismissed as mere ...

Strikes that took out Iran's top leadership by the United States and Israel have put North Korea on edge, drawing a sharply worded condemnation that reflected Pyongyang’s deep unease about the reach ...