SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised "a beautiful life" for the families of "martyrs" who perished ...

As the Human Rights Council prepares to look into the situation in North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)) ...

The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing ...

A man whose early life in North Korea was so bleak that he was prepared to be shot in the back while making a break for ...

North Korea executing people for distributing K-dramas, UN warns - Orphans and street children forced to work in coal mines ...

Captured during the Korean War and imprisoned for decades for refusing to renounce his communist beliefs, 95-year-old Ahn Hak ...

In distant lands / the winds of freedom blew / when the world stayed silent / before Korea’s pain / you sowed the seeds of ...

As North Korea touts a new beach destination on its east coast, Pyongyang is quietly embracing its own brand of consumer ...

Small-scale merchants in North Korean markets say life has become “exhausting” as the country’s internal exchange rates have ...

There were dozens of activists and police officers, their attention fixed on one man: Ahn Hak-sop, a 95-year-old former North ...

Ahn Hak-sop was captured during the Korean War by the South and imprisoned for more than 40 years. Now 95, he wants to return ...

Paju, South Korea (CNN) — Captured during the Korean War and imprisoned for decades for refusing to renounce his political beliefs, 95-year-old Ahn Hak-sop now has a single dying wish: to return to ...