The resort includes all the elements of a sunshine holiday, from a beach to waterslides, yet only carefully vetted people will be able to put their feet up and enjoy a stay in the secretive country ...

When Janet Newenham saw an Instagram post about a trip to North Korea, she couldn’t move fast enough. ‘I dropped everything and emailed the company saying where do I send my money,’ she tells me. ‘We ...

North Korea, a secluded totalitarian state ruled by the Kim family for seven decades, emerged after the division of the Korean peninsula post-WWII. Founded by Kim Il Sung, the regime's ideology of ...

From most angles in Pyongyang, the Ryugyong Hotel looks finished and ready for guests. The glass skin is smooth, the 330-metre pyramid sharp against the skyline, its tip tapering into a neat, ...

One thing the international hacking controversy has highlighted is the vast cultural gap between the U.S. and North Korea. North Korea is notoriously hard to access as a Westerner, and the U.S. State ...

Recognizing the immutable nature of the North Korean regime is not pessimism. It is realism -- what this moment demands of ...

The Socialist Patriotic Youth League offers a window into how the North Korean authorities uses state-run organizations to ...

The sport has become something of an athletic arbitrage for the country, which figures other nations won’t subject preteens to such arduous training. | World News ...