Many North Korean defectors in South Korea use a secret network of brokers to stay connected to those back home. But recently, South Korea investigated some of those brokers for espionage.

An elderly North Korea sympathizer on Thursday called on the government to repatriate him via China or Russia after his ...

The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found.

North Korea is cracking down on breast implants for women, threatening those who have undergone the procedure with severe ...

North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency announced on Wednesday that its mysterious American captive, Kenneth Bae, has begun his 15-year sentence at a "special prison," which has Korea ...

*Dennis Rodman says he is partially responsible for the release of American college student Otto Warmbier from a North Korea prison, a claim that goes against the State Department’s declaration last ...

Amnesty International has obtained new satellite images showing the growth of North Korea's largest prison complex — camps 15 and 16, or kwanliso — where prisoners are forced to dig their own graves, ...

Technology has allowed North Korea to increase control of its citizens over the last decade with some being executed for distributing foreign TV programs, according to the United Nations.

Questlove’s post showed several alleged firsthand accounts of North Korean torture practices taking place in survivor camps, shared by way of graphic cartoons. The drawings, which show life in North ...