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

It is perhaps no great surprise that North Korea, which is nominally under communist rule, was an early adopter of women’s football. Socialist ideology generally encourages women to take part in sport ...

Official state propaganda asserts that Kim Jong-il was born on a sacred mountain, heralded by a double rainbow and the appearance of a new star in the sky. Official biographies insist he never ...

“More than 100 million people worldwide have been killed because of the horrors of socialism,” resolution co-sponsor U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, claimed in a news release. “History has repeatedly ...

Critics say a pending bill does not differentiate between historic atrocities and support for social programs.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani refused to back down Friday for calling President Donald Trump a fascist—even when ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to abandon its ...

Power doesn't make anyone immune to fear. Throughout history, some of the world's most ruthless dictators harbored deeply ...

China, which has been sharpening its tone day after Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, said Japan could intervene in the event of a Taiwan contingency, went so far as to advise its citizens to ...

History loves to paint dictators as iron-willed monsters who ruled through pure terror and unwavering confidence. Yet beneath ...

Actor Kim Hak-cheol, 66, came to pay his respects at the wake set up at Asan Medical Center in Songpa-gu, Seoul, at about ...