It is a reminder of how unpredictable life in the DMZ can be ... There are no fences or barriers physically separating the village from North Korea. Only a rusty sign demarks an invisible line ...

I travelled to the closest village to the Demilitarised ... crisis in 300 words North Korea slapped with UN sanctions after nuclear test North Korean defector: My life could end instantly A ...

(L-R) The national flag of North Korea (Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi), The ... hotel represents the gap between the reality of everyday life for civilians, and what the regime want to present to ...

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, ...

In this video former prisoners and their captors expose the horror of life inside North Korea's prison camps. They describe forced abortions, impossibly hard labour, starvation and prisoners forced to ...

North Korea has intensified loudspeaker broadcasts along the South Korean border, creating disturbing sounds for up to 24 ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are rarely ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they ...