Kim Hye-Sook survived a total 28 years of brutality, overwork and near-starvation in one of North Korea's notorious prison camps. Now she travels the world campaigning to shut them down.

Kim, who es

North Korea said on Saturday it has no plans ‘at present’ to conduct a nuclear test despite what it called South Korean attempts to provoke the situation.

Seoul's government was trying to aggravate t

North Korea's military threatened Monday to blow up the Seoul offices of South Korean media outlets following critical coverage of a mass children's event in Pyongyang.

The military general staff, in

Two senior US officials made a secret visit to North Korea in an apparent attempt to persuade it to cancel last month's long-range rocket launch, a South Korean report said Thursday.

A US Air Force B

Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a U.S. ins

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that Marxists and Maoists are plotting to kill her in league with the Pakistani intelligence, North Korea, Venezuela and Hun­gary.

Banerjee made the se

North Korea has resumed construction work on an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) in a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, website 38North reported

North Korea held at least three public executions of people charged with cannibalism in the last few years, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.

Some North Koreans ate and sold human flesh during

North Korea has apparently finished preparations for a third nuclear test and is awaiting a political decision to go ahead, a South Korean nuclear expert said on Wednesday.

The expert also said the c

North Korea remains largely cut off from the Internet and mobile phone technology that links much of modern society, but any nuclear test would be swiftly revealed by global scientists, experts say.