The dictator of North Korea made a rare acknowledgment of the poor living conditions in his country at a government meeting this week. Supreme leader Kim Jong Un said in a Thursday speech to the ...

Madeleine Gavin, like many readers, was haunted by the story of Hyeonseo Lee, a woman who fled North Korea with her family in the 1990s and documented their perilous journey in her bestselling 2016 ...

SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament has enacted an urban development law aimed at modernizing city environments to provide better living conditions for the people, the ...

There are nearly 35,000 defectors from North Korea living in South Korea. Many of them rely on a secretive network of brokers to check on their families back home or to send them money when their ...

Relations between the neighbors have sunk to the lowest level in years. Now, Pyongyang is blaring eerie sounds across the border that villagers say is making their lives hell. By Choe Sang-Hun ...