Torture, humiliation, coerced confessions and hunger appear to be “fundamental characteristics” of the North Korean pre-trial detention system, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday, citing testimony from former officials and detainees held in the country since Kim Jong Un took power in 2011.

A new film claims to shed light on astonishing efforts by North Korea to evade international sanctions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected recovery efforts in a flooded village, his latest visit to areas damaged by recent typhoons, while his sister reappeared in public for the first time in about two months, state media said on Friday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's speech Saturday in Pyongyang to mark the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea was quite different from previous occasions, according to experts.

From poolside stands decorated with pumpkin vines to neon karaoke bars, Pyongyang's tourist hotels look nothing like their exteriors make them seem.

Combining photography with essays, Hotels of Pyongyang takes readers inside the North Korean capital’s hotels

North Korea has pledged harsh punishment for local officials it says failed to protect residents from a typhoon which caused a “serious incident” with dozens of casualties, the ruling party’s newspaper reported. Typhoon Maysak brought heavy downpours across the country earlier this week, with footage showing a street inundated with water in the eastern port town of Wonsan, Kangwon province.

According to media reports, the 47-year-old man had been attempting to defect to the North at sea from a fisheries patrol boat.

North Korea has had no cases of the new coronavirus that is spreading in neighboring China, a health ministry official said on state media on Sunday. North Korea has ended most flights with China and Russia, imposed mandatory quarantines on any foreigners arriving in the country and ended international tourism programs, among other measures.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first appearance in state-run media in three weeks on Sunday, the birthday of his father and late leader Kim Jong Il. The official Korean Central News Agency reported in the morning that Kim Jong Un visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, where the embalmed bodies of the two former leaders -- his grandfather and father -- lie in state.

The US is monitoring intelligence that suggests North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, is in grave danger after undergoing a previous surgery, according to a US official with direct knowledge.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has died, according to a leading Hong Kong broadcast network.

North Korea's borders remain tightly sealed and security personnel are carrying out temperature checks, according to a South Korean press report.

After more than a year of legal disputes, a hostel on the grounds of the North Korean embassy has closed for good. Non-diplomatic use and foreign income generated for Pyongyang was considered a breach of sanctions.

If you have been monitoring developments in North Korea lately, you could be forgiven for assuming that Kim Jong-un is a few short weeks away from quadrupling his nuclear weapons arsenal. Addressing the Central Military Commission on May 24, Kim emphasized the need for the North to bolster its nuclear weapons deterrent and accelerate the country’s artillery program. To underscore the point, Kim declared that he was putting Pyongyang’s strategic armed forces on high alert. The news was greeted with a mix of dread and mystery.

Amid the COVID-induced shutdown of the border, hunger, homelessness, and business closures are all on the rise.

Kim Jong-un imposes lockdown on Kaesong, calling it a ‘critical situation’

A combination of coronavirus border closures and an unprecedented pressure campaign by a South Korean government keen to engage with North Korea may destroy networks defectors have long used to start new lives, activist groups say.

Ministry of Social Security was recently ordered to round up anyone with "an unclear place of registration" by Oct. 10, Daily NK has learned.

Kim Jong Un is not sharing power with sister Kim Yo Jong, and suggestions the North Korean leader is involving his sibling at the highest level of government are an exaggeration, South Korean officials say.