Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Korea is home to about 26 million people who are taught to worship their leaders as gods. The country is culturally and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of North Korean workers were authorized to labor in Russia to both aid in the Russian war effort against Ukraine and to rake in money for North Korea - but they are watched around the clock ...