The following is a summary of domestic news in North Korea this week. ------------ N. Korea enacts urban development law to provide better living conditions SEOUL -- North Korea's rubber-stamp ...

Wealthy residents living near the border with China are buying high-end luxury items brought in by ethnic Chinese traders.

For two hours every day, Lee Si-young and her colleagues broadcast uncensored foreign news into authoritarian North Korea.

2025 is shaping up to be an annus horribilis for the dedicated community of North Korean human rights activists. The past two months have seen U.S. funding sources and programs decimated in the wake ...

The mood music is building to a crescendo. This week Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator, spoke to his rubber-stamp parliament about his “fond memories” of meeting Donald Trump, with whom he held ...

A visitor looks through binoculars across the Imjin River to North Korea in a photo from 2021. South Korea’s Unification Ministry on Friday asked the North to give advance notice before releasing ...

A South Korean court on Monday handed a suspended sentence to a North Korean defector who attempted to cross the border back into the North last year using a stolen bus, according to local media. The ...

(NewsNation) — A Chinese national living illegally in Southern California pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges for exporting firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea, according ...

The average monthly rent for a sub-40sqm co-living unit in Seoul stands at 1.13 million won--about 1.5 times higher than the average officetel, Korea's hybrid residential-commercial studio apartment.