North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ditched his trademark Mao-style suit for gray slacks, a white T-shirt-like undershirt and a wide-brimmed straw hat — a rare sartorial move into casual dress ...

These kinds of one-piece dresses slowly became trendy about two or three years ago, and now everyone wears them," the source ...

Bright colors once discouraged blossoming in Pyongyang. SEOUL, South Korea — -- One of the most visible images of North Korea has long been how grey and monotone the country is, like a black ...

“North Korean workers can produce 30 percent more clothes each day than a Chinese worker,” said the Korean-Chinese businessman. See Also China to cut off North Korean imports under UN sanctions ...

North Korea exported about $725 million worth of clothing last year, according to South Korea’s trade-promotion agency, making it a significant source of income for the cash-strapped country ...

SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 30 (UPI) --North Korea appears to be running clothing factories in Kaesong Industrial Complex, an inter-Korean zone that was supposed to have shut down two years ago.

In North Korea, an impoverished country where temperatures drop below freezing in winter, people are encouraged to wear clothes made from stone, a new report details.

The book explains how the North Korean famine of the 1990s was an important catalyst which accelerated North Korean marketization and paved the way for a form of free capitalism which holds today’s ...

Kim Jong Un called on party leaders to improve North Korea’s food, clothing and housing issues. In this photo provided by the North Korean government, on October 10, 2021, Kim (center) delivers ...

Chinese textile firms are increasingly using North Korean factories to take advantage of cheaper labor across the border, traders and businesses in the border city of Dandong told Reuters.

Ms. Chun has reported on North Korea for nearly two decades for JoongAng Ilbo, one of South Korea’s biggest newspapers. SEOUL — For more than six months, Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea ...