Pyongyang, a city of 3.2 million people, has a long history, but it was largely rebuilt after the Korean War (called the “American War” in North Korea) by the newly founded Communist ...

Pyongyang, it seems, is a city asking to be both loved and feared. Courtesy Oliver Wainwright and TASCHEN "Inside North Korea," published by Taschen, is available August 15, 2018.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Moscow his full support for their war in Ukraine during talks with Russian Foreign ...

Explore Pyongyang, the city designed to serve the Kim dynasty’s vision of a ‘Communist paradise.’ From pastel-painted Soviet housing blocks to the iconic Juche Tower, see how every building ...

If Pyongyang embodies the architect’s dream of a model city, its facades are also suggestive of a Potemkin village. In their new monograph “Model City Pyongyang,” architects Cristiano ...

North Korea is creating a commercial street in downtown Pyongyang as part of a large-scale project to turn the capital into an international city by 2012, when its late leader Kim Il-sung marks ...

Every edifice, every cluster of buildings, and the city plan as a whole make ideological statements of fealty to the leader, national power, and ultra-modernity. Vast spaces and long vistas overwhelm ...

In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment in the Korean War, when US General Douglas MacArthur threatened all-out nuclear war.