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 ...

Multiple defectors from North Korea spoke to NBC News about the mindset of soldiers sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

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 ...

While some images were deleted during run-ins with the police, Chu shared some snapshots with us. Take a look at life inside North Korea.

North Korean troops, unacknowledged by their own country, are getting chewed up in a vicious war in which, far from home, ...

North Korea says it tested a cruise missile system, its third known weapons display this year, and vowed “the toughest” ...

SEOUL, South Korea — The downfall of conservative ... in terms of information operations to North Korean soldiers in Kursk and to domestic audiences inside North Korea.” ...

The unprecedented loss of life in a foreign conflict means that the war in Ukraine could be the Kim regime’s most significant ...