Even if you don't know much about North Korea, you know it's one very different place. The country is infamous for nuclear ...

"Back in the Vietnam War, North Korean air force pilots were sent there, but their planes weren't equipped with parachutes or ...

Crowds of people wrapped up against the bitter January cold clutch signs emblazoned with the slogan “Stop the Steal,” wave US ...

North Korea says it carried out its second missile test in two days — and this one was hypersonic. It came as U.S. Secretary ...

The launch event came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Seoul for talks with South Korean allies over ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s security service stopped an effort to detain him on insurrection charges and has vowed to do so ...

North Korea test fires a ballistic missile as Blinken visits Seoul, where he warned that Putin could provide Kim Jong Un with advanced space technology.

The Kim Jong Un regime opted to show defiance rather than restraint in its first weapons launch since the U.S. election.

North Korea may dispatch more troops to Russia despite casualties, South Korea’s National Intelligence told lawmakers during a briefing Thursday. Ukraine's intelligence services released new ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean state media reported for the first time Wednesday on the political instability in South Korea, focusing on mass protests calling for the ouster of President ...

Washington, a return to normalcy would come as a relief regardless of who’s in charge in Seoul. The current crisis has been a ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are rarely ...