North Korean broadcasts disrupt life in border areas, causing stress and prompting residents to consider relocation or ...

There is often a significant disparity between North Korea’s stated policies and their implementation. In fact, looking back ...

A tourist visited North Korea, capturing daily life snapshots of its residents. The photos depict people at markets, on their way to work and school, alongside beautiful landscapes and unique city ...

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 ...

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, ...

(L-R) The national flag of North Korea (Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi), The ... hotel represents the gap between the reality of everyday life for civilians, and what the regime want to present to ...

A North Korean ... So Yeon enjoyed her life in the army. She was impressed with her allocated hairdryer, although infrequent electricity meant she had little use for it. Daily routines for men ...

"These shows offer Koreans on both sides of the border an escape from the pressures of daily life, the difference being in North Korea they're consumed in secret." But not all forms of ...