(L-R) The national flag of North Korea (Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi), The ... hotel represents the gap between the reality of everyday life for civilians, and what the regime want to present to ...

In this video former prisoners and their captors expose the horror of life inside North Korea's prison camps. They describe forced abortions, impossibly hard labour, starvation and prisoners forced to ...

Little is still known about North Korea and life behind the totalitarian curtain. Katharina Zellweger visited North Korea for the first time in 1995 and has since been to the country around 70 times, ...

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 ...

A tourist visited North Korea, capturing daily life snapshots of its residents. The photos depict people at markets, on their way to work and school, alongside beautiful landscapes and unique city ...

‘Potemkin Village’ is a term used to describe a fake propaganda village that nations build to impress foreigners. Kijong-Dong Parents who make this simple mistake raise ‘mentally weak ...

SEOUL--Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a new Starbucks at a South Korean border observatory. Customers have to pass a military ...