The North’s nuclear forces have been the focus of global concern. But its conventional military is vast and empowered — even ...
During the famine in the mid-1990s, grain was hard to come by, he said. North Korea monitoring groups have reported increases in the prices of rice and corn — the two most important staples ...
(Zubina Ahmed/CBC) Lee says she lived through famine in North Korea, and finding food was often her only focus. "The purpose of life in North Korea for me was to survive. So every day after I ...
"This is a very, very significant move for the North Koreans," one expert told Newsweek of Pyongyang sending troops to Ukraine.
Refuse from a North Korean "trash balloon" landed inside the South Korean presidential compound in the capital Seoul amid ...
North Korea in 1996, Somalia in 1991-1992 and Ethiopia in 1984-1985. Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland suffered a period of starvation, disease and emigration that became known as the Great Famine.