Pyongyang crowds lined the streets to watch athletes from 16 nations compete in the 26th Mangyongdae Prize Marathon in the morning and then filled a performance hall for a gala concert featuring ...

Andrew Jeong is a former Wall Street Journal reporter covering North Korea from Seoul.

A horde of foreign fun-runners took to the streets of Pyongyang Sunday for an annual marathon that has become one of the North Korean capital’s most popular tourist events. Officially called the ...

North Korea is monitoring electricity usage in homes located in upscale high-rise apartments in elite neighborhoods of ...

Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in London, U.K. with a focus on covering American economic and business news. Hugh joined Newsweek in 2024, having worked at Alliance News Ltd ...

"I may never again walk the streets of Pyongyang, a city that holds a very special place in my heart." A few months prior to his detention, ABC News interviewed Sigley about what everyday life was ...

According to the marathon's official website, the circular route took in "many of the iconic buildings, monuments and streets" of Pyongyang before "heading out into the countryside just outside of ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea ... Trucks from the 1950s and 1960s ply the streets. Rectangular, concrete apartment buildings date the skyline. There is even something vaguely Twilight Zone about the ...

where the country’s second tallest building — the Songhwa Street Main Tower — was completed in 2022. North Korea is also expanding housing beyond Pyongyang, building thousands of homes in ...

and runners from overseas practiced at a hotel in Pyongyang for the Sunday race, said Simon Cockerell, general manager at Beijing-based Koryo Tours, in his Instagram posts showing streets and a ...