The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found.

As two typhoons hammered North Korea within a week of each other, state media broadcasts looked unusually reminiscent of international TV coverage, with correspondents standing knee-deep in ...

North Korea held a mass gymnastics and art performance titled *Long Live the Workers’ Party of Korea* to commemorate the 80th ...

The North Korean government has intensified repression inside the isolated, nuclear-armed state, expanding electronic surveillance and publicly executing people for sharing foreign media, the United ...

North Korea's state-run television has broadcast footage of a military parade held on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

North Korean state television began broadcasting footage on Saturday of a military parade that South Korean authorities said had occurred in the pre-dawn hours earlier in the day.

Closing the loop — almost — on our reports about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the "mystery woman" who has been seen with him in recent weeks: "North Korean media on Wednesday identified the ...

On Sunday night -- Monday morning in Pyongyang -- North Korean state television announcers sobbed their way through announcing news that Kim Jong-Il had died. The 69-year-old lead had a heart attack ...

FILE - North Korean defector Kim Seong-Min, then-the head of Free North Korea Radio, shouts slogans during a rally to improve human rights condition in North Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 14, ...