North Korean fashion, drums, and jubilation: Here’s how South Koreans celebrated the first-ever Defectors’ Day By Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio and Yoonjung Seo, CNN ...

A North Korean civilian was taken into custody by South Korean forces early Thursday after making a rare defection across the ...

Here are five fashion items banned in North Korea, illustrating how the country’s approach to clothing aligns with its broader political and cultural goals. Sign In. TOI. Go to TOI.

North Korea might be the hermit kingdom, but data from the UN reveals that goods worth $1 billion were still traded in and out of the reclusive country in 2022. ... Mislabeled clothes and arms deals.

The shorts outlawing is also not the first clothing-based ban seen in recent times in North Korea. Just last year, women were condemned for wearing ‘capitalist fashions’ - namely tight ...

Parasites from human waste and defaced Hello Kitty clothing have been found in bags of rubbish carried by North Korean balloons into South Korea, officials say. More than 1,500 waste-carrying ...