The recent disappearance of a wealthy entrepreneur's family in Hyesan, Ryanggang province, has sent shockwaves through the ...

I left my home in North Korea’s countryside on Feb. 17, 2011, but the actual act of leaving North Korea was not immediate. I ...

Pyongyang has sent around 11,000 soldiers to help Putin's army repel an incursion by Ukraine's military into the Kursk region ...

The Hyesan Forestry Machine Factory was forced to retract an overtime work order just one day after it was issued.

Lee left North Korea in his early 20s with his mother. They fled their hometown of Hyesan, a North Korean city that borders China, where Lee earned money by smuggling Chinese DVDs, electric fans ...