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.

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

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

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 ...

Kim Yo Jong's rhetoric-- dismissing outreach as "a vain dream" and branding Lee Jae Myung's government Washington's "top lapdog" -- signals no softening of tone.

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 ...

Pyongyang no longer speaks of reunification. It seeks recognition -- as one of two sovereign states on the Korean Peninsula ...

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, ...

Technology has allowed North Korea to increase control of its citizens over the last decade with some being executed for distributing foreign TV programs, according to the United Nations.