A growing birthday cake trend among North Korean elementary school students is deepening social divides, with children from poorer families being excluded from parties and friendships as a result, a ...

Pyongyang police held a public struggle session Feb. 1 to convict a man arrested for distributing South Korean videos, music, ...

Police officers in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province, have pushed back against pressure to adopt orphans under North Korea’s ...

The Ministry of State Security has suspended all investigations and custodial proceedings ahead of the Ninth Party Congress, ...

North Korean train stations are turning away homeless people seeking winter shelter, with security tightened ahead of the Ninth Party Congress.

North Korean authorities are pushing research-based learning in schools, but teachers say poor conditions and political ...

A N. Korean university in Wonsan held an ideological lecture instructing students to view South Korea as an enemy state ahead of the Ninth Party Congress.

A professional dealer and a university student were caught smuggling hundreds of grams of meth through a checkpoint in North Hamgyong province.

North Korea maintains four railway crossings to China and one to Russia while physically severing connections to South Korea ...

N. Korea has suspended state smuggling in three border provinces ahead of the Ninth Party Congress, threatening to raise prices and disrupt supply chains.

North Korean clam gatherers face wage theft and military surveillance as aquaculture expansion exploits coastal workers in ...

Kim Jong Un orders crackdown on prosecutors taking bribes to shield elite students, activating law allowing immediate ...