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

Administration in North Korea keeps a strict watch on how its people dress, the type of music they listen to, the videos they ...

According to a new report, a North Korea hit squad has been enlisted in an attempt to stamp out foreign television, ...

BLOODTHIRSTY tyrant Kim Jong-un has reportedly had a former key crony executed in a savage clampdown inside his regime, sources have claimed. Ri Yong-ho, who negotiated North Korea's nuclear deals ...

"Beyond Utopia" has a quotidian terror. It peeks behind the Potemkin-village façade that, for too long, is all we’ve really ...

Such executions are rare in North Korea but not unheard of, and are typically used to terrify people into obedience when authorities are worried about rule-breaking. North Korean youth caught ...

Gause does not think Ri was executed as it is uncommon for North Korea to execute someone from its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, although senior military officials have been executed. Ri was ...

Kim Jong-un has reportedly executed a North Korean minister who once criticised former US president Donald Trump, calling him a liar. Unconfirmed reports in Japan suggested that politician Ri Yong ...

The raid has raised fears that the conservative government is reverting to dictatorship-era methods of attacking labor.

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 ...

A billboard for North Korean state television in Pyongyang urges ... of the population by using threats of torture, extrajudicial executions, wrongful imprisonment, enforced disappearances ...