Experts believe a new male family member, who has been spotted in public for the first time, could be the sucessor of Kim ...

Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), told the BBC that North Korea has only been able to develop an expensive nuclear programme because it is a totalitarian state, and it's done ...

North Korea is in a category of its own when it comes to human rights violations. It is a totalitarian state where tens of thousands of people are enslaved and tortured. All forms of freedom of ...

but North Korean state media has since said South Korea is the only totalitarian state on the peninsula. “The puppet Yoon Suk Yeol, who had already faced a serious crisis of governance and ...

Set in a high-end shopping mall in central Pyongyang, the fake Ikea outlet comes complete with a huge collection of furniture ...

Little is still known about North Korea and life behind the totalitarian curtain. Katharina Zellweger visited North Korea for the first time in 1995 and has since been to the country around 70 times, ...

North Korea is set to open a long-awaited beachfront "tourist city" later this year as the "first big step" to developing the ...

North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the sea to its east, South Korea's military said, in what is Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months.

North Korea leaned into “self-reliance,” its ... during Kim’s first few years as the third-generation leader in a totalitarian dynasty. He defied all expectations when he took over the ...

South Korea has developed into one of Asia's most affluent countries since partition in 1948. The Communist North has slipped into totalitarianism and poverty. The republic was proclaimed in 1948 and ...