Most North Korean refugees are women who are at risk of sex trafficking and forced marriages to men in rural China. While these risks are known, North Korean women have continued to make the journey ...

In North Korea, women are expected to be both homemakers and breadwinners—while also maintaining complete subservience to ...

From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

The human rights violations faced by North Korean women trafficked to China are unimaginably severe. Faced with the threat of starvation, crossing the border in search of food is often their only ...

Past work from Llardo has shown that nomadic Bajau divers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have especially large ...

North Korean women, in search of a better life, cross the border into China. However, if caught and repatriated, they face a brutal and heartless fate. Among the most horrifying aspects of this ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says troops sent to help Russia ‘annihilate’ Ukrainian forces under military pact with Moscow. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Kim Il Sung University ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An estimated 4,700 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded while fighting alongside Russia against Ukrainian forces, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers ...

SEOUL: North Korea has unveiled a new warship it claims is a destroyer armed with the "most powerful weapons", at a launch ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un, state media said on Saturday ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday thanked North Korea for deploying troops to aid in the Kremlin’s recent military operation against Ukraine. “Our North Korean friends’ move was ...