For the first time since the global outbreak of Covid-19, researchers claim to have pierced North Korea’s ironclad information blockade to reveal how some ordinary citizens endured the pandemic. While ...

This joint report was originally published by the George W. Bush Institute on June 17, 2025. This report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in cooperation with the George W. Bush ...

North Korea’s government claimed to have avoided the pandemic entirely, declaring “zero” COVID-19 cases until May 2022. Yet recent reporting indicates the virus was widespread, largely untreated, and ...

A collection of analyses examining the human and systemic effects of Covid-19 in North Korea. This project brings together original data, research, and expert analysis on the impact of Covid-19 in ...

People who have escaped from North Korea since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic have described severe repression and restrictions on economic activity. North Korean escapees’ accounts illustrate the ...

Officials drastically understated outbreaks and deaths, depriving citizens of help, two U.S. research groups report, citing interviews with people inside North Korea. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from ...

More than two years after the world was blighted by the outbreak of Covid-19, North Korea finally declared it had recorded its very first case of the virus. In reality, North Koreans had been ...

North Korea hosted the first Pyongyang International Marathon in six years on Sunday, welcoming international runners to the isolated autocratic nation that closed its borders to all outsiders in 2020 ...