In her memoir, Jihyun Park recounts a harrowing escape from North Korea — one of the most secretive and oppressive regimes in ...

If true, it would be the highest-profile ouster by North Korea in recent years. In his earlier period of rule, Kim Jong Un engineered a spate of executions, purges and dismissals of senior ...

If confirmed, it would be the highest-profile such case by North Korea in recent years. In his earlier period of rule, Kim Jong Un engineered a spate of executions, purges and dismissals of senior ...

United States President Joe Biden has named a special envoy for human rights in North Korea, a position that was vacant ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in South Korea to reassure its ally of the U.S. commitment to defend it, as the seven-decades-old U.S. system of alliances in Asia comes under increasing pressure.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) remains one of the ... by using threats of torture, extrajudicial executions, wrongful imprisonment, enforced disappearances ...

President Joe Biden on Monday named an envoy to press North Korea on human rights, ending a six-year gap that included the ...

Blinken accused North Korea, which is ruled by dictator Kim Jong Un, of "unlawful and reckless missile launches – including the launch of a long-range ballistic missile over Japan in October ...

North Korea significantly increased the number of missile tests it conducted in 2022, firing more than in any previous year. It's thought North Korea's military may also be planning to test another ...

The enemy of the UAE, its most-threatening nation, is Iran, and our enemy is North Korea’ Iran and South Korea have summoned ...

Russia's embassy in North Korea says the country has eased stringent epidemic controls in capital Pyongyang that were placed during the past five days to slow the spread of respiratory illnesses.North ...