AFTER desperately fleeing across a frozen river to escape North Korea 25 years ago, Kim Kyu-li was able to reinvent her life ...

It’s bad enough that North Korea, an implacable enemy of the United States, has the nuclear bomb. To make matters worse, it ...

South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world - but for North Korean refugees, the situation is even worse. Their ...

This city was built around a former prison where thousand of people died, and the life expectancy is 10 years lower than the ...

As a result of these sanctions and severe isolation, the country has suffered from food shortages, mass starvation, underdevelopment, and mass unemployment. China has been North Korea’s largest ...

Hamas militants released three frail and abused Israel hostages in exchange for 183 Palestinian prisoners, some also ...

West Jerusalem?s claim it has quit the UN Human Rights Council is incorrect, as it is not a member, a UNHRC spokesman has clarified Israel ...

Widespread starvation has been averted ... There are no bases of power in North Korea other than the security forces and the Korean Workers Party (KWP), both of which appear to be firmly under ...

The crisis unfolding in Afghanistan today is not just a repetition of history. It is an amplified version, with even fewer ...

In the past, more so than today, small hometown newspapers were often filled with gossip, the more scandalous the better, ...

Rising deaths from starvation have led to declarations of ... leaders as well as a Chinese firm accused of supplying North Korea with electronic equipment.

It has also led to mass starvation and malnutrition among the ... Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are not signatories and oppose the court’s work. Caspar Veldkamp, minister of foreign ...