Katharina Zellweger visited North Korea for the first time in 1995 and has since been to the country around 70 times, still counting. On June 7, she talked to Asia Society Switzerland about everyday ...

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 ...

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

(L-R) The national flag of North Korea (Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi ... the grandeur of the hotel represents the gap between the reality of everyday life for civilians, and what the regime want ...

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

Yu Hyuk was just nine years old when he started begging on the streets of North Hamgyong, one of the poorest provinces in North Korea ... was just "part of everyday life" for many North Koreans ...

Photographer Damir Sagolj has taken a series of compelling images that perfectly capture the surreal world that is daily life in North Korea. Shot from China across the border, the pictures ...