AFTER desperately fleeing across a frozen river to escape North Korea 25 years ago, Kim Kyu-li was able to reinvent her life ...

In the 1990s, North Korea experienced a major famine that was an existential challenge for the regime. Is today’s situation comparable to that? The coronavirus outbreak is an even greater ...

What are some of the major causes of the famine in North Korea? The famine in DPRK is the result of the cumulative effects of a fractured economic infrastructure and inadequate food production. Over ...

Yet, thanks to satellite imagery and the internet, North Korea's secretive world is gradually being unveiled. Here is a ...

The book explains how the North Korean famine of the 1990s was an important catalyst which accelerated North Korean marketization and paved the way for a form of free capitalism which holds today’s ...

North Korean forces are suffering severe casualties ... but the war in Ukraine could be the most significant test since the 1990s famine. Since the end of the Korean War in the early 1950s ...

North Korea is opening up to foreign tourists for the first time since it sealed its borders in 2020 during the pandemic.

North Korea implemented birth control programs in the 1970-80s to slow a postwar population growth. The country’s fertility rate recorded a major decline following a famine in the mid-1990s that ...

And yet, the current hardships cannot be compared to the North Korean Famine of the mid-1990s, when a severe economic crisis was coupled with mass starvation, leading to the deaths of hundreds of ...