Little is still known about North Korea and life behind the totalitarian curtain. Katharina Zellweger visited North Korea for the first time in 1995 and has since been to the country around 70 times, ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are rarely ...

She tells us what life was really like in North Korea until she fled at the age of 17. She says about her time in North Korea that it felt like she was living in a prison and that she thought ...

Statistics are hard to get and often based on estimates, but what can they tell us about life in the North? Kim Il-sung effectively founded North Korea in 1948 and his family dynasty has ruled the ...

It's been 10-11 years since six South Koreans have been detained in North Korea, but there are still no words on whether they ...

One woman who was caught attempting to flee North Korea suffered abuse at the hands of a police official who was questioning her at a pre-trial detention facility, says the BBC. “My life was in ...