Granted relative freedom, former envoys share their experiences of one of the strangest and most repressive corners of the ...

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with North Korea expert Jean Lee about what daily life is like in the country and how much the average person knows about the upcoming summit between President Trump and ...

You didn’t come to America until your late 20s. Talk a little bit about what it was like for you growing up in North Korea. Lee: When I was in North Korea, I saw my life as just an ordinary citizen.

WASHINGTON -- Watching the media fawning over the North Korean delegation at the Pyeongchang Olympics, I recalled a picture that my old boss, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, kept under the ...

Everyday Life In North Korea NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sokeel Park of the refugee assistance group Liberty in North Korea about everyday life for North Koreans. Asia.

Life in North Korea is also unsafe in other ways. In 2014 and regarding residential property, officials made a rare apology for the collapse of an under-construction, ...

Pedro Pardo took photos of a remote part of North Korea's border from China's Jilin province. The images offer a bleak yet fascinating look at life in a country shrouded in secrecy.

“North Korea is strong on traditional security stuff,” Park said. ... making the transition to life in South Korea can be daunting for the 30,000 North Koreans who have settled here.

Inside North Korea: What life for a rare foreign student in Pyongyang reveals about the reclusive country. Alek Sigley was pursuing a master's degree at North Korea's premier university.

The horrific brutality of life in North Korea is laid bare in a UN report, which describes how the state maintains a climate of fear through executions, enforced disappearances and starvation.

In the 1990s, North Korea was devastated by a famine — state propaganda called it the “Arduous March” — that saw rationing, blackouts and no running water — and up to 3 million deaths. 11 ...

“In North Korea, life only gets better if the state helps you. But these days, the state doesn’t help. We’re on our own.” — The bride, now 23, from Hyesan. Escaped from North Korea in ...