Topic: North Korea

A U.N. investigator said he has heard of reports North Korea may have freed as many as 7,000 prisoners, after a report suggested the regime let go of captives suffering from malnutrition.

North Korean defectors are facing difficulties adjusting to life in the South, with more people emigrating to the West, according to a South Korean press report.

The leader of South Korea's opposition People Power Party, Kim Chong-in, said on Tuesday that the country needs to consider arming itself with nuclear weapons to counter the threat from North Korea.

The North Korean man who defected across barbed wire fences of the demilitarized zone this month is a former gymnast, according to a South Korean press report.

Parents of South Korean marines who died during the North Korean artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong Island mourned the deaths of their sons while condemning the downplaying of North Korean provocations.

The United States' policy of "maximum pressure" against North Korea was working in 2018 until Chinese leader Xi Jinping began to meet with Kim Jong Un and influenced his most important decisions, a U.S. analyst said.

Kim Jong Un may have acknowledged the presence of COVID-19 cases in North Korea in confidential discussions, according to a Japanese press report.

A leading Korean War historian in China has had his online lectures suspended after he allegedly expressed an opinion about the conflict that contradicts official narratives, reports say.

South Korea has opted out of co-sponsoring a North Korean human rights bill at the United Nations as the top North Korean diplomat in New York condemned the resolution as a fabrication.

A North Korean university could be in trouble after trying to secretly procure South Korean supplies and Kim Jong Un expressed anger over the state-banned activity.