At a meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) this week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un criticised dozens of officials ...

Hyunseung Lee, who was born in North Korea in 1985, defected with his family ... which there were no proper shower facilities, food was poor, and trainees had to improvise their own toilet paper ...

How different are the people of North and South Korea? Because of poor diet and harsh living conditions, North Koreans on average are between 3 and 8 centimeters (1.1-3.1 inches) shorter than ...

SEOUL--North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools ... But the isolated country’s digital ambitions have to contend with poor electricity supplies and low network connectivity.

This scarcity of food has been attributed to North Korea's worst drought in 37 years, which has resulted in poor harvests and crop damage across the country. In 2018, North Korea's crop output hit ...

North Korea has reported what it describes as the ... However, the country's poor road and rail infrastructure, alongside existing authoritarian restrictions on travel between cities for most ...

China has come to North Korea's aid yet again by providing vast amounts of food assistance and also 550,000 tons of fertilizer to help the reclusive and impoverished country recover from summer ...

North Korea has gone the other way ... very little international trade - and many of its people are desperately poor. Technically these countries are still at war. The fighting stopped in the ...

A rally celebrating the success of a recent nuclear test is held in Kim Il-sung square in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang September 13 ...

North Korea is often described as one of the most repressive countries in the world. But a new exhibition at the University of Technology Sydney aims to reflect how North Korean women are flipping ...