It remains unclear how North Korea was able to get the footage of the Tokyo 2020 Games this year

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Sunday that next month’s annual military drills between South Korean and U.S. troops will undermine prospects for better ties between the Koreas, just days after the rivals reopened their long-dormant communication channels.

An exodus of diplomats and expats from North Korea has forced the Indian Embassy in Pyongyang to close indefinitely, an informed source told NK News on Monday, further curtailing international diplomatic activity inside the country.

It would be the first ever papal visit to the totalitarian state

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss which has left him "looking emaciated" is said to have broken the nation's heart "so much". The tightly controlled state media quoted an unidentified resident of the country's capital Pyongyang who said recent images of Kim had upset people across the nation.

North Korea's second-in-command inspected a construction site for 10,000 new apartment units in Pyongyang, state media said. Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported Friday the construction is a "major project" of North Korea's Five-Year Plan that "carries out the decision of the Eighth Party Congress."

North Korea has pushed back on cultural influence from its southern neighbor and beyond.

Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was a CIA informant before he was assassinated in Malaysia in 2017, a report has claimed.

With the country bitten by sanctions and the pandemic, the leader wants to project strength with a home-building spree in central Pyongyang.

Sanctions against North Korea that have been in place since the DPRK attacked and killed dozens of South Korean sailors in 2010 are no longer effective, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday.

North Korea tallest abandoned Ryugyong Hotel - the 'Hotel of Doom'. It was supposed to become the world's tallest hotel. Instead, it became the world's tallest abandoned building. The pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel is 330 meters (1,080 ft) tall and one of the most prominent features of Pyongyang's skyline.

A new bill in the U.S. Congress is proposing that social media companies ban certain users from North Korea and other countries defined in U.S. law as being state sponsors of terrorism.

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?

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.