North Korea claimed it had no COVID-19 cases at all. For more than two years, that was the official story. A new report tells ...

For the first time since the global outbreak of Covid-19, researchers claim to have pierced North Korea’s ironclad ...

South Korea's new president's first move toward easing tensions with North Korea: switch off loudspeakers blaring propaganda and K-pop tunes over the border.

North Korea claimed it was blessed with a COVID-19 "miracle," losing only 74 lives during the pandemic without vaccines. But ...

The North Korean regime has enshrined allegiance to its leader above all else. To worship another is, in the eyes of the ...

1981 -- Harvard University establishes a research institute for Korean studies. 1983 -- Kim Young-sam, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, ends a three-week hunger strike that he held to ...

The newly elected President defeated an increasingly authoritarian rival party. Can he bring the country back together?

It is clear that without North Korean support, Russia’s shell hunger would have been far worse, which means that North Korea’s illicit activities may have extended the war, or even prevented Ukraine ...

the main enemy is hunger. North Korea struggles with food shortages as Kim devotes the majority of resources to his weapons programs, meaning that, like most of the broader population, soldiers ...

North Korea got a good deal by sending its officials ... Among the North Korean elite, there's also a hunger for consumer goods, which Russia's support can help to provide, Bennett said.

Additionally, the North Korean government often prioritizes ... "WFP will support the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in achieving zero hunger in a manner that protects the food security ...

detailing the horrors of watching their neighbors starve to death as they struggle to survive what may prove to be an even worse hunger crisis than North Korea’s famine in the 1990s, which ...