SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for "leveling up" the living standards of rural areas, saying a failure to provide necessities, including food, was a "serious ...

As North Korea slowly emerges from five years of self-imposed pandemic isolation, a glittering new high-rise neighborhood in the capital Pyongyang is taking center stage. Photos of the 10,000 ...

In 2023, North Korea displayed economic regression by intensifying state control over the economy — relegating improved living standards to a secondary consideration. North Korea continued to improve ...

The uneasy truce between the nuclear-armed North and the US-allied South remains one of the most vexing security concerns for ...

People who have escaped from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic have described the government’s severe repression and restrictions ...

SEOUL — North Korea has long maintained that all six of its nuclear weapons tests were conducted safely. But on Tuesday, a Seoul-based human rights group warned that radioactive contamination ...

North Korea launched a new, perhaps more agile ICBM in its first test in almost a year of a weapon designed to threaten the U.S. mainland, days ahead of the U.S. election.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday it has repaired its damaged second destroyer and launched it into the water in the presence of leader Kim Jong Un. Russia ramps up offensives on ...

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As North Korea slowly emerges from five years of self-imposed pandemic isolation, a glittering new high-rise neighborhood in the capital Pyongyang is taking center stage. Photos of the 10,000 ...

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for "levelling up" the living standards of rural areas, saying a failure to provide necessities, including food, was a "serious political issue ...