The resort includes all the elements of a sunshine holiday, from a beach to waterslides, yet only carefully vetted people will be able to put their feet up and enjoy a stay in the secretive country ...

North Korea, a secluded totalitarian state ruled by the Kim family for seven decades, emerged after the division of the Korean peninsula post-WWII. Founded by Kim Il Sung, the regime's ideology of ...

From most angles in Pyongyang, the Ryugyong Hotel looks finished and ready for guests. The glass skin is smooth, the 330-metre pyramid sharp against the skyline, its tip tapering into a neat, ...

When Janet Newenham saw an Instagram post about a trip to North Korea, she couldn’t move fast enough. ‘I dropped everything ...

Recognizing the immutable nature of the North Korean regime is not pessimism. It is realism -- what this moment demands of ...

The Socialist Patriotic Youth League offers a window into how the North Korean authorities uses state-run organizations to ...