North Korea fortified its borders with China and Russia during the pandemic. Kyodo News via Getty Images. And a woman living in the country’s capital, Pyongyang, revealed that a family of three ...

Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing, with multiple sources suggesting this week that deaths due to starvation are likely. Some experts say the country has hit its ...

Children and elderly in North Korea face starvation, U.N. report says North Korean workers at the Pyongyang Department Store No. 1 disinfect the building in December 2020 to help curb the spread ...

The horrific brutality of life in North Korea is laid bare in a UN report, which describes how the state maintains a climate of fear through executions, enforced disappearances and starvation.

Despite all its military threats and nuclear tests, North Korea is hiding a massive economic failure. With a GDP of just $25 ...

South Korea's Korea Development Institute estimates the North's harvest was 4.4 million tons last year, well short of the 5.7 million tons needed to feed the country.

North Korea North Korea's COVID-19 border closure prompted suicide spike, widespread starvation: 'it's heartless' One woman claimed that people now harbor 'discontent' against their leaders ...

In 2016 and 2017, in response to North Korea’s continued nuclear and missile tests, the Obama and Trump administrations, respectively, initiated an expansion of the United Nations sanctions ...

North Korea has released a line of shirts for men that it claims can be eaten to "avoid starvation" if necessary.. Alek Sigley, an Australian graduate student at Kim Il Sung University in the ...

North Korean defector recalls starvation before escaping to the U.S. 02:51 SINGAPORE--Grace Jo was born in North Korea and lost most of her family to famine. Her father was killed by the state ...

North Korea's government food distribution system will run dry in May and put one-quarter of the country's 24 million residents at risk of starvation, the U.N. World Food Program said in an ...