SEOUL, South Korea — One North Korean who worked abroad says that as a waitress in China, she was forced to put up with male customers who groped her and tried to get her drunk. Two others ...

A local version of Spam. Smartphones, or two, for everyone. Amid escalating U.S.-North Korea tensions, former journalist Jean Lee visits Pyongyang and finds that, at least there, life has improved.

As Lee explains, propagandized since birth, the people of North Korea know nothing of what life is like outside their own borders. The brutal dictatorships of Kim Jong-un and his predecessors Kim ...

Despite Kim Jong Un's triumphant calls for prosperity and reports of progress from diplomats in Pyongyang, everyday North Koreans still say that every day is a struggle.

For some of North Korea’s elites, life isn’t so bad. As the world anxiously looks on amid rising tensions between Donald Trump and the nuclear-armed rogue state, some of North Korea’s elite ...

LYDEN: Barbara, remind us of what life was like for the average North Korean citizen in the 1990s. First of all, there was the famine that occurred under Kim Jong Il, and that news did get out.

Life in North Korea. By Genevieve Fussell. January 9, 2015. Save this ... “In exploring my roots in South Korea, I couldn’t really ignore the North,” she told me.

Alek Sigley was pursuing a master's degree at North Korea's premier university. LONDON -- Alek Sigley was, in many regards, just like any other 29-year-old postgraduate student. But there was one ...

As tensions between North Korea and the U.S. mount, curiosity about what life is like there has increased. 6 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About North Korea ...

Madeleine Gavin's North Korean exposé tracks two riveting and dangerous attempts at defection. In the eye-opening “Beyond Utopia” (November 3, Roadside Attractions), from editor-turned ...