Yu Hyuk was just nine years old when he started begging on the streets of North Hamgyong, one of the poorest provinces in ...

A pattern of tightening market controls and soaring prices has culminated in an ambitious government intervention – a ...

One defector said soldiers were given just three bullets each during the rare shooting drills. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A Ukrainian commander told Newsweek that Pyongyang's troops seemed to carry more ammunition than supplies when in battle.

The diverging trajectories of North Korea’s state and society over the last year are striking. The government has reaped ...

North Korean conscripted soldiers endure brutal conditions, grappling with severe shortages of essentials — from bullets for ...

China has come to North Korea's aid yet again by providing vast amounts of food assistance and also 550,000 tons of fertilizer to help the reclusive and impoverished country recover from summer ...

Chef Paik Jong-won is pictured on a banner outside Paik’s Noodle in the Save Mart shopping center at First and Nees in north ...

as well as food, petroleum products, and help with its air force and submarines. North Korea is also getting critical insights into how its weapons, including both artillery and missiles ...

Staff in the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet at the airport here brace themselves for a stampede every time an Air Koryo flight ...

All North Korean recruits are taught a song that includes a verse about saving their last bullet for themselves to avoid capture, one former soldier told NBC News.