North Korean defectors risk being killed, imprisoned, and trafficked after they escape. This is Park's harrowing story. Following is a transcript of the story. Narrator: More than 1,000 North ...

Few have managed to escape or enter the North Korean bubble, but those who did have some very strange stories to tell. Click through the gallery to find out what really goes on in the "Hermit ...

North Korea sent its best troops to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine. But after months of suffering severe losses, they ...

At a time when the notoriously secretive state may be open to dialogue and senior officials are willing to talk about big issues such as nuclear weapons, could there be a permanent shift for North ...

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 ...

King was charged with escape ... group and into North Korea last year. Once he was released back into the United States, he was detained by the U.S. military and charged. This story will be ...

becoming the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to escape to the South since 2016. Before fleeing to the South, Ri Il Kyu, 52, was a counsellor at the North Korean embassy in Cuba, the Chosun ...

Later in Seoul, she met with a group of young North Korean defectors, lauding their escape to the South as “courageous, inspiring.” “One of my priorities is to raise the profile of human ...

We want to stop the Russians. And they invite North Korean soldiers. They themselves burn the faces [of those] who cannot escape, injured or killed," the Ukrainian president said. He noted that ...

Anyone caught selling hotdogs on the streets or cooking the sausages at home risks deportation to North Korea’s notorious labour camps. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaking during the ...