North Korea threatened a further military build-up on Saturday in response to Joe Biden’s condemnation of this week’s missile launches, a weapons test that marked Pyongyang’s first substantive provocation since the US president took office.

Her life in South Korea seemed perfect: new friends, a burgeoning career, reality-TV fame. But she was about to become notorious—disappearing without a trace, only to reappear pledging allegiance to North Korea. What happened to Lim Ji-hyun?

Jang Yeong-jin fled North Korea to escape a loveless marriage. Now he is engaged to his boyfriend.

Jang Yeong-jin's remarkable story as North Korea's only openly gay defector was covered by the international media after he published his autobiography. Now, almost a quarter of a century after fleeing the country, he tells the BBC that he plans to marry his American boyfriend.

North Korea has not responded to behind-the-scenes diplomatic outreach since mid-February by President Joe Biden's administration, including to Pyongyang's mission to the United Nations, a senior Biden administration official told Reuters on Saturday.

It wasn’t just photos of dazzling Seoul skyscrapers and luxurious Samsung watches: There was a time when South Korean propaganda leaflets — designed to make North Korean soldiers envy their capitalist neighbor — featured smiling, bikini-clad women to entice potential defectors.

During the Korean War, the United States inflicted unimaginable horrors on the Korean people. Yet today Americans know almost nothing about their government's role in war crimes and atrocities.

North Korea is well-practiced at drug smuggling and hacking, and needs as much foreign currency as it can get.

A North Korean government-backed hacking group targets security researchers who focus on vulnerability and exploit development via social networks, disclosed Google tonight.

INCREDIBLE satellite images have emerged which appear to show thousands of people in North Korea who have been marshalled to spell out “defend with your life”. Brain-washed citizens of Kim Jong-un’s totalitarian regimes were rehearsing for a massive parade rehearsal just days before president-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Kim Jong Un’s little sister has emerged as North Korea’s most outspoken attack dog, securing her place as a possible successor to the leadership.

Like other former serviceman, the captain had been tuning in at sea for decades.

Han, a former lieutenant colonel, needed to get underwear for his daughter – kicking off an illicit trade that eventually saw his family escape Pyongyang.

Pyonyang has passed a new law “banning the spread of certain foreign cultures and ‘further cementing’ strict ideological policies.” In addition, the new body passed laws “boosting sci-tech policies, forestry policies and control over telecom networks.”

North Korea has rejected South Korean food assistance through the World Food Program, according to a South Korean press report. Donga Ilbo reported Monday Pyongyang recently turned down a South Korea-funded donation of 50,000 tons of rice. Seoul's unification ministry is also planning to recover the cost of the project, or $11.77 million, from the U.N. agency, the report said.

A North Korean crew appears to be trapped aboard a fishing ship that has been stranded on a Russian beach ever since a destructive typhoon ripped through the area more than two months ago.

A new book documenting their 1970s design gives a rare glimpse into North Korea's hospitality industry.

North Korea banned smoking in public places to "provide more cultured and hygienic living environments," state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday.

A North Korean man, believed to be a defector, has crossed the heavily-guarded border into South Korea through the military buffer zone between both countries. Officials have detained him and opened an investigation.

Amid an ongoing, full-scale border lockdown against COVID-19, North Korea on Tuesday warned its citizens against relying on imported foreign goods — calling the habit a dangerous “disease” that could spread the virus from abroad.