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

For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. And if exchanges do take place, it is likely that North Korean POWs will be returned to North Korea, but President Zelensky did ...

North Korea has test-fired sea-to-surface strategic guided cruise missiles, state news agency KCNA has reported. The media service made the claim early on Sunday, adding that the weapons ...

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; ...

South Korea law states that the leader of a rebellion can face life in prison or the death penalty ... and vowed to eliminate 'shameless North Korea followers and anti-state forces'.

For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel ... It is punishable by life imprisonment or death, although South Korea has not executed anyone in decades.

Retired trucker Ed Cridland lived in his modest 111-year-old Altadena home from birth until his death. “His life began and ...

Constant propaganda as well as limited access to ammunition — or even toilet paper — were the stark realities of being in North Korea's army ... It was a grueling life — one in which ...

South Korea's military suspects North Korea is preparing to send more troops to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces, following ...

experience life abroad, they come to see North Korea as nothing short of a prison,” Ahn said. “Once they realize what freedom could mean, it’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t consider ...

The president justified the declaration by accusing the main opposition party of sympathizing with North ... life in jail or the death penalty if convicted of leading insurrection, although South ...

After being considered the No. 2 official in North Korea, Kim Yong Ju was effectively ... but he live the second half of his life mainly in obscurity, often in a remote part of the country ...