Story Archive
2012-08-13
Relief costs rise after North Korea increases its estimates of flood casualties and damages.
2012-08-13
One of North Korea’s four gold medals at the London Olympics was won with help from foreign training funding.
2012-08-03
North Korean athletes are regurgitating political rhetoric at the London Olympic Games.
2012-08-02
The UN says more food shortages are likely after heavy rains batter North Korea.
2012-07-31
North Korean women face injury and even death from malpractice during the back-alley procedures.
2012-07-26
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's wife's debut marks a break with the past.
2012-07-26
North Korea calls for a system of checks after its team is identified with the South Korean flag.
2012-07-23
A South Korean broadcasting official will discuss coverage of the upcoming Olympics in the North.
2012-07-19
A new report documents North Korea’s security apparatus that maintains a police state.
2012-07-16
Official media says the top military official has been relieved of all posts because of 'illness.'
2012-07-13
North Korea’s soldiers are finding it tough raising animals and planting crops to feed themselves.
2012-06-18
North Korea has launched a probe into the sale of state-issued fertilizer.
2012-06-11
The North Korean leader, sources say, displays concern for the people’s welfare in impromptu departures from his planned itineraries.
2012-06-06
A new report sheds light on a caste system in North Korea assigned at birth.
2012-05-22
North Koreans say South Korean signals are becoming more difficult to access.
2012-05-10
More foreign content is flowing into the country, a new report says.
2012-05-08
Authorities in North Korea find banned South Korean videos are popping up in new places.
2012-04-30
North Korea detains university students over a failed rocket launch.
2012-04-17
A former political prisoner recounts life in the North Korean labor camp where he was born.
2012-04-16
Beijing takes the rare step of strongly condemning North Korea's defiant rocket launch at the U.N. Security Council.
2012-04-13
North Korea's untested leader Kim Jong Un faces his first major challenge after a failed rocket launch.
2012-04-13
The U.N. Security Council reacts to Pyongyang's defiant but unsuccessful rocket launch.
2012-04-12
Pyongyang's defiant move to be discussed at U.N. Security Council.
2012-04-10
A human rights envoy says Washington wants Beijing to release North Korean detainees.
2012-04-09
North Koreans question a planned satellite launch, saying some citizens can't have even two meals a day.
2012-03-29
An NGO slams the US decision to suspend food aid to North Korea.
2012-03-23
They say that a satellite launch should not derail U.S. plans to deliver food to North Korea.
2012-03-19
Activists fear they will face persecution if repatriated to North Korea.
2012-03-16
North Korea says it will launch a satellite in what critics contend is a long-range missile test.
2012-03-12
The campaign is aimed at punishing families of those who flee the country.