SEOUL — Shortly after Kim Jeong-ah graduated from military college in North Korea, a senior told her she should embody a woman’s sensibilities and characteristic attention to detail. Female ...

The Asian countries of Burma, China, East Timor and North Korea also have conscription. In North Korea, women have been required to perform military service since 2015, and the minimum age is 17.

North Korea's Moranbong Band, the first all-female music group formed under the regime, debuted in 2012. Allegedly handpicked by Kim Jong-un himself, the band is a fusion of modern and traditional ...

It was reported last week that North Korea plans to triple the number of troops fighting with Russia along the front lines in ...

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military identified and tracked the individual near the central-west section of ...

North Korea's military, the fourth-largest in the world, remains shrouded in mystery. Both men and women are required to serve in the military in North Korea. Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of ...

South Korea, with the world’s lowest birth rate, may soon find itself without enough troops to keep its military fully staffed as it deals with new threats in an increasingly tense Western ...

The Women’s Army Corps was officially founded Sept. 6, 1950, and the total number of women soldiers increased to about 1,000 by July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed.

North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Son Hui departed for a trip to Russia, state media reported Tuesday, as the two regimes continue to strengthen ties amid growing international concern about ...

In a rare admission, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country's birth rate is too low. Experts see no working solution for a looming population crisis.

North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un tearfully pleaded with his insular nation’s women to have more children to offset a declining birth rate.