An curved arrow pointing right. In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they ...

As tempers flare and threats fly, we take a tour inside the Hermit Kingdom… A Korean-American journalist recalls her journey to Pyongyang in 2016, flying with Air Koryo – North Korea’s only ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are rarely ...

North Korea is one of the most intriguing countries in the world. With heavy restrictions on access to information and limited tourism, few people really know what life is like in the secretive ...

Photographer Damir Sagolj has taken a series of compelling images that perfectly capture the surreal world that is daily life in North Korea. Shot from China across the border, the pictures ...

North Korean troops, unacknowledged by their own country, are getting chewed up in a vicious war in which, far from home, ...

North Korea has been known for its mysteries since the time it was established and one of the biggest mysteries that has continued to grab the headlines all these years are the mysterious trains ...

Convicted under South Korea’s National Security Act, the unnamed men had been operating as agents of North Korea’s Cultural Exchange Bureau – a benign-sounding front for the 225th Department ...

Even so, a combination of militancy, internal oppression, and the apparent support of regime elites mean that Kim Jong-un's government still has complete power over North Korea's people.

Mounted on poles outside the auditorium, five North Korean flags waved in testament to the school’s ideological loyalty. Inside the newly ... school’s pro-North Korea links are tied to a ...