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

The documents convey a relentless effort by North Korea to penetrate the global financial system to skirt sanctions.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

After grinding to a halt to prevent the spread of COVID-19, there are signs that trade between North Korea and China is slowly recovering, with North Korea recently purchasing a large quantity of premium construction materials from China. “Twenty or thirty large container trucks from Dandong in Liaoning Province recently entered Sinuiju,” a source based in China told Daily NK on Sunday.

The Japanese government believes recent belligerence by North Korea could be explained by the spread of COVID-19 in its territory, poor health on the part of leader Kim Jong Un, and other economic factors, the country’s defense minister said Thursday.

South Korea's Unification Ministry confirmed an explosion at the office, which is in the North.

North Korea announces it will cut all official communication channels with South Korea from Tuesday.

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.

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.

North Korean state media on Thursday touted new technology aimed at providing real-time remote education from a number of different digital devices, as daily reports in the country’s ruling party daily stress the importance of tele-education amid nationwide quarantine measures against COVID-19.

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

Spaniard Alejandro Cao de Benós found his calling in socialist North Korea – not least because of a shared ideology – and is keen to clear misconceptions about the health of the hermit kingdom and its supreme leader.

North and South Korea have exchanged gunfire in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) which divides the two countries. Seoul's military said shots from the North hit a South Korean guard post in the central border town of Cheorwon. It said it returned fire and delivered a warning announcement. There are no reports of injuries.

North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes his first public appearance for 20 days, state media report, amid speculation about his health.