Much of what we know about North Korea comes in scattered fragments, cautiously smuggled out like those fleeing its ...

Of particular concern is how the law itself contradicts international human rights standards, especially regarding freedom of ...

Among untold levels of human rights abuse, indoctrination and brutal punishment, are the intense restrictions placed upon every aspect of daily life. Some of which are so ridiculous to be laughable; ...

Officials of national commissions, ministries and institutions stretch before running and Taekwondo demonstrations on the first Sports Day of the year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, ...

North Korea sent around 11,000 troops and 4,000 have been killed, wounded, are missing or captured. Officials who spoke anonymously said that an estimated 1,000 of these were killed by mid-January.

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are rarely ...

The unprecedented loss of life in a foreign conflict means that the war in Ukraine could be the Kim regime’s most significant ...

In his announcement of martial law, Yoon called the assembly “a den of criminals” that was bogging down government affairs, and vowed to eliminate “shameless North Korea followers and anti ...

DAILY POST reports that on Wednesday ... denied that Yoon masterminded an insurrection, a crime in South Korea punishable by life imprisonment or even technically by the death penalty.

North Korean troops, unacknowledged by their own country, are getting chewed up in a vicious war in which, far from home, ...

In South Korea, it’s the second-largest source of ... said Solutions for Our Climate. “This extends the life of thermal power plants — many with emissions per unit of energy higher than ...

who became South Korea's first sitting head of state to be arrested in a dawn raid this week. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. After the court extended his ...