Apr 9, 2023 · People living in North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, live rigid and controlled lives. With a lack of connection to the outside world, North Koreans maintain their...

Dec 30, 2024 · What life was like for North Koreans in 2024, from high prices to crackdowns Economic pressure on households mounted as forex prices surged, while border controls exacerbated medicine shortages Ifang Bremer December 30, 2024

May 21, 2024 · Documentary photographer Tariq Zaidi was lucky to be one of the very few non-Chinese tourists to visit North Korea.

Jun 15, 2023 · Under the tyrannical rule of Kim Jong Un, North Koreans are forbidden from making contact with the outside world. With the help of the organisation Daily NK, which operates a network of sources...

Apr 7, 2023 · The man known as David tells Sky News how his father disappeared without a trace and his mother was tortured in a labour camp - as he provides a rare insight into life in North Korea since the COVID pandemic. Sky's Asia correspondent Helen-Ann Smith has gained rare access to one of the few North Korea defectors.

Nov 28, 2024 · North Korea is home to about 26 million people who are taught to worship their leaders as gods. The country is culturally and economically isolated as many suffer from malnutrition and poverty....

Mar 24, 2024 · Its population of roughly 26 million people lives largely in isolation from the rest of the world in the austere communist state, barred from going abroad without permission from the...

Dec 5, 2023 · Life in North Korea is often depicted as oppressive and difficult, but the experience of living within its borders is highly varied. There is a vibrant informal economy that has grown in recent years and is often shielded from government view.

Images of the reclusive nation taken from across the border. Birds fly over a North Korean guard post at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the...

Jun 14, 2023 · The world's most secretive and tyrannical state is now an information black hole. For months, three people inside North Korea have risked their lives to tell the BBC what is happening.