North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday sent New Year's greetings to Russian President Vladimir Putin after the latter ...

North Korea is home to about 26 million people who are taught to worship their leaders as gods. The country is culturally and economically isolated as many suffer from malnutrition and poverty. Many ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)’s acceptance of recommendations to allow international aid into the country and strengthen measures to ensure access ...

Will North Korea give up its nukes? Leaders avoid specifics after historic summit between north and south Kim Jong Un makes history to cross border. The rival Koreas fought one of the 20th century's ...

This statement was delivered by Human Rights Watch at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) during an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea held on ...

Andrei Lankov, The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia (New York: Oxford University Press), 304 pp., $27.95. NORTH KOREA is routinely described as unknowable—“the most ...

The People's Democratic Republic of North Korea (DPRK), better known in the West as North Korea, entered the Atomic Age in October 2006. That's when it was revealed that the DPRK detonated its first ...