North Korean commandos have practiced attacking South Korea's presidential compound and abducting key officials as leader Kim Jong-un watched, official media reported Sunday.
A quarter of a million young Koreans are studying to become civil servants in safe, boring, lifelong jobs while only 140,000 want to work in private enterprise.
Former DPRK leader Kim Jong-il's fourth wife Kim Ok was purged and sent to a prison camp less than a year after her stepson Kim Jong-un took power, Radio Free Asia reported Tuesday.
Koreans and Japanese are taking a more positive view of each other than in the past even as age-old resentments between their governments fester, a survey suggests. But the overall feeling is still negative on both sides.
The U.S. is preparing a series of reports on the abuse of DPRK leaders who toil for the regime overseas or have fled abroad, as well as abuses within the isolated country.
S.Koreans spend an average of two hours and 23 minutes a day on their smartphones, longer than one hour and 56 minutes they spend on meals.
The DPRK's regime is making maximum propaganda capital out of a bland message from Chinese President Xi Jinping to suggest its international isolation is less than total.
DPRK has denounced a U.S. intelligence company's scenario for precision strikes on its nuclear facilities as an "expression of the American ambition for a war of aggression."
Gender roles are rapidly changing. Now sons are hearing from their mothers or wives what women used to hear all the time from their fathers or husbands.
One in every five elementary schools across the country takes in fewer than 10 new children this year as the birthrate drops and the population ages.
Chinese authorities arrested a DPRK’s spy in the border city of Dandong early this month and confiscated 30 million yuan and gold bars, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported Sunday.
The U.S. Treasury on Wednesday put DPRK back on a blacklist of "primary money laundering concerns," which places third-country banks at risk of sanctions if they do business with Pyongyang.
DPRK's leader Kim Jong-un's aunt has come out of hiding in the U.S. to speak about her famous nephew for the first time.
DPRK in a message on Saturday called for urgent military talks with Seoul in the next few weeks. The North Korean military sent the message to the Defense Ministry here, saying the talks should be held at a "convenient time and place" in late May or early June.
DPRK's new elite dress in designer clothes, sip cappuccinos and get plastic surgery, in stark contrast to the meager living conditions of their compatriots who make less than US$10 a month, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
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