SEOUL--There’s little doubt that North Korea’s chronic food shortages worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and speculation about the country’s food insecurity has flared as its top ...

Quick service chains like McDonald's, KFC, and Domino's are adding Korean food items to their menus to increase sales. Brands like ITC, Nestle, and HUL are also embracing Korean products. With the ...

The high-rise neighborhood is part of a major construction drive in the capital Pyongyang, where residents’ quality of life ...

South Korea’s troop deployment between 1965 and 1973 to fight alongside U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War has left a complex ...

After 14 years of working directly with North Korean refugees, I’ve seen myths about them spread faster than smuggled South ...

mostly at factories and restaurants in China and logging camps and construction sites in Russia, to bring in much-needed foreign currency. North Korean workers abroad were in general under the ...

South Korea's humanitarian assistance to North Korea reached zero last year for the first time in nearly 30 years, amid Pyongyang's continued antagonistic stance toward Seoul, the unification ministry ...

South Korea's spy agency also said there appears to be a deployment of fresh North Korean troops. This comes after reports of earlier heavy losses. Travel 2025-02-27T10:44:39Z I was one of the ...

North Korean farmers are growing increasingly resentful as the ruling party's interference in their autonomy reaches new ...

at the time of his defection, said if he were still a North Korean soldier, he would also want to go: "If I went to Ukraine, I could eat food, and I could see another country." He said there are ...

Housing shortages remain a significant challenge for North Korea, which is also grappling with a faltering economy, surging commodity prices, and ongoing food insecurity. A 2021 study by ...

Since the start of the Ukraine war in February 2022, military cooperation between North Korea and Russia has rapidly expanded ...