The evils of North Korea are well-chronicled: from its political prison camps to the needless and preventable starvation deaths of between 450,000 and 2 million people. That latter estimate comes ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un laughs with General Ri Pyong Chol, right, at a photo session with the participants of the first meeting of the air-persons of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang ...

Soldiers march with the portrait of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung during a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of country's foundation in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sept. 9, 2018.

In North Korea, every boy enters the military at 17, if he is physically able, and serves for 10 years. “So in companies and universities, it’s mainly women,” Jihyun explains.

According to a July 10 report by the Choson Sinbo, the mouthpiece of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, ...

CNN’s Will Ripley has just returned from his tenth reporting trip to North Korea. Here, he reflects on how things are changing in one of the world’s most reclusive countries.

Reporting from Pyongyang, North Korea — The North Koreans streamed in for hours — black-suited officials, women in colorful dresses, grim-faced military men — until they were a heaving mass ...

North Korean women work in the Kim Jong Suk silk mill, seen during a press tour, May 9, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Wong Maye-E/AP Photo — -- We've been here in Pyongyang less than a week.

PYONGYANG, North Korea-- A group of female peace activists including Gloria Steinem and two ... The group of about 30 women is to spend several days in North Korea before the march meeting ...

South Korean musicians will travel to North Korea this weekend for the first time in over a decade, as the two countries prepare for a groundbreaking leaders’ summit next month.

North Korean authorities routinely commit sexual violence against women with impunity, according to the report, which was based on interviews with 54 North Koreans who fled the country and 8 ...