Kim Su-jin, a 45-year-old nurse who settled in South Korea in 2007 after defecting from the North, recalled that her 20s were ...

Could North Korea's Kim regime be on the brink of a sudden fall? This eye-opening analysis delves into the devastating famine, Covid-19 impact, and potential collapse scenarios, including geopolitical ...

Kim Jong Un may be ushering a new era with new flats in Pyongyang, but he wouldn't be pleased to know that defectors have ...

North Korea’s public health system collapsed in the wake of a famine of the 1990s when doctors were forced to use beer bottles to construct intravenous systems, according to defectors.

Yet, thanks to satellite imagery and the internet, North Korea's secretive world is gradually being unveiled. Here is a series of remarkable photographs showing aspects of North Korea's hidden world ...

Amid Israel’s military assault, the world’s hunger monitor has struggled to access key data to determine whether conditions in Gaza constitute a famine. It’s a simple but brutal equation ...

The book explains how the North Korean famine of the 1990s was an important catalyst which accelerated North Korean marketization and paved the way for a form of free capitalism which holds today’s ...

The first time Kim's family escaped North Korea was when the country went through a deep famine in the 1990s. The tyrannical Kim dynasty turned on its people and impoverished them to keep itself ...

Famine struck North Korea in the 1990's, a time when men were forced to work and women to stay at home. Director of the Masters of Not-for-Profit and Social Enterprise Program, Bronwen Dalton ...

The diverging trajectories of North Korea’s state and society over the last year are striking. The government has reaped ...

North Korea implemented birth control programs in the 1970-80s to slow a postwar population growth. The country’s fertility rate recorded a major decline following a famine in the mid-1990s that ...