Bella Seo, who fled North Korea when she was a teenager, has given a chilling account of what school life is like in the hermit kingdom, where children are forced to do hard labour.

In North Korea, five years of primary school and six years of secondary school are compulsory, the defector added. But she said some kids spent their days foraging for food instead. In terms of ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of short-range ballistic missile systems that simulated nuclear ...