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.

Despite claiming that it has ‘zero cases of COVID-19,’ North Korea demanded its people stay inside for fear that yellow dust traveling through the air from China could carry the “malignant virus” into the country.

The United Nations granted Doctors Without Borders a sanctions exemption to send COVID-19 and tuberculosis medical aid to North Korea, the U.N. website showed on Tuesday. According to an Oct. 14 letter by the U.N Security Council 1718 Sanctions Committee, Doctors Without Borders — also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) — made a Sept. 22 request for a sanctions exemption that would allow the group to...

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.

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.

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.

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