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 ...

In North Korea, televisions are manipulated to broadcast only state-controlled content, glorifying the Kim dynasty. Defector ...

A daring drone owner flew their device from China into North Korea, capturing rare aerial footage of a North Korean city. The ...

The group entered the country through China on their trip to Rason in the far northeast — more than 500 miles from the ...

As tempers flare and threats fly, we take a tour inside the Hermit Kingdom… A Korean-American journalist recalls her journey to Pyongyang in 2016, flying with Air Koryo – North Korea’s only ...

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 ...

North Korea has 'disappeared' 20 crack troops after ... potentially endangering the leader's life'. 'This led to a situation where Chairman Kim's safety was seriously threatened in an instant ...

Timothy Cho is one of the thousands of North Korea residents to flee the country in recent years — many of whom relocate to ...

Kim Jong-un allowed foreign tourists into North Korea for the first time in five years today. The borders were closed in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. Some tour operators crossed the border ...

But for the first tourists heading into North Korea, this was an easy sacrifice to be able to see the country for the first time since 2020. Luca Pferdmenges, a 23-year-old content creator ...

Inside North Korea, "pandemic paranoia remains deeply entrenched ... "They wanted to know about music, sports – what life was like in the US. They wanted connection." Harriet Marsden is ...