North Korea has long relied on sending its citizens abroad to earn hard currency under strict state control.

North Korean women working at Russia's Wildberries warehouse earn as little as $4 per shift after the regime takes 90% of ...

The nuclear-armed North, which is accused of widespread rights abuses by the United Nations and other critics, is a deeply hierarchical and patriarchal society where traditional values of deference to ...

Fewer North Koreans defected across the southern borderthis year than the previous year for a annual total of 224, South ...

The Hermit Kingdom. International Pariah. Terrorist State. The very name of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea, evokes sentiments of dystopia, dictatorship, and backwardness.

UNSEEN, the first-ever international exhibition dedicated to North Korean women’s lives and voices, opens September 20-27 at 393 Broadway in Tribeca, New York, coinciding with the 80th session of the ...

I would be one of the North Korean women, trying to escape, becoming subject to human trafficking and violence.” Opening on the 77th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UNSEEN ...