Information paradox: why we train our AI, but starve North Korea's minds

While we mark AI's transformation through data, 26 million North Koreans remain deliberately starved of information essential ...

News from outside disappears in North Korea

Despite setbacks in efforts to spread outside news in North Korea, Lee Young-hyeon, a defector-turned-lawyer in South Korea, ...

North Korea accelerates nuclear work at Yongbyon, report says

North Korea has been upgrading its Yongbyon nuclear facility throughout 2025, underscoring the regime's drive to accelerate ...

North Korea claims victory in 'war on religion'

Pyongyang boasts of crushing underground churches, but defectors and rights groups say secret worship persists despite harsh ...

Decades-long efforts to send uncensored foreign news into North Korea are facing setbacks

Lee's Seoul-based Free North Korea Radio (FNK) station has tried for two decades to give real-time news to North Korea's 26 ...
Council on Foreign Relations

How North Korea Has Bolstered Russia’s War in Ukraine

North Korean troops and weapons have played an unexpectedly crucial role in sustaining Russia’s grinding military campaign in ...

Mapped: The North Korean Missiles That Can Strike US Territory

U.S. defense intelligence believes North Korea will have five-fold the current estimated number of ICBMs by 2035.

North Korea’s Population Crisis Warning Signs

The United Nations Population Division has estimated that about 12 percent of North Koreans are aged 65 or older. The U.N.

Five people plead guilty to helping North Koreans infiltrate US companies as ‘remote IT workers’

The U.S. Department of Justice said five people — including four U.S. nationals — "facilitated" North Korean IT workers to get jobs at American companies, allowing the regime to earn money from their ...
The Diplomat

North Korea Denounces South Korea-US Joint Fact Sheet

After Washington confirmed its support to Seoul’s development of an indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, Pyongyang released ...
Human Rights Watch

Submission on North Korea’s Implementation of Recommendations from the Third and Fourth Cycles of the Universal Periodic Review for the Special Rapporteur’s Report

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...