North Korea has long relied on sending its citizens abroad to earn hard currency under strict state control.
The nuclear-armed North, which is accused of widespread rights abuses by the United Nations and other critics, is a deeply hierarchical and patriarchal society where traditional values of deference to ...
Reports reveal North Korean women workers at Wildberries, earning significantly less than their Russian counterparts, in a ...
Fewer North Koreans defected across the southern borderthis year than the previous year for a annual total of 224, South ...
In response, her Chinese husband’s acquaintance, a friend of a doctor, helped her visit a hospital. Ordinarily, North Korean ...
The Hermit Kingdom. International Pariah. Terrorist State. The very name of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea, evokes sentiments of dystopia, dictatorship, and backwardness.
A Korean unity deal for the Pyeongchang Olympics will see 22 North Korean athletes cross the border with South Korea to compete and march together under a unification flag at the opening ceremony. A ...
The sport has become something of an athletic arbitrage for the country, which figures other nations won’t subject preteens to such arduous training.