North Korea's former navy chief and a shipyard manager were scrubbed from official photos over their role in May's botched ...

The world’s bad-actor states are well-known from the worrying news they regularly produce. But only North Korea’s brand of isolated, propaganda-fueled tyranny seems to inspire reportage ...

Madeleine Gavin's North Korean exposé tracks two riveting and dangerous attempts at defection. In the eye-opening “Beyond Utopia” (November 3, Roadside Attractions), from editor-turned ...

And unlike most documentaries about North Korea which exclusively explore the geopolitical angle, Gavin wanted to make a film that focused on the raw human stories, and Beyond Utopia does just that.

During a trip to South Korea in 2019 to scope out ideas for a film on North Korea, Gavin met Kim, who told RNS he eventually agreed to the documentary “in order to help the people who are ...

Human Rights Watch states the case very clearly: North Korea “remains one of the most repressive countries in the world.” In a 2022 report, the nonprofit said, “The North Korean government ...

North Korea will open a tourist site on its east coast next week that it called a prelude to a new era in its tourism ...

To come to terms with her family's decision to send her brothers to North Korea, Yang Yonghi made three films — and found understanding along the way.

South Korea's spy agency says North Korea’s planned dispatch of thousands of military construction workers and deminers to ...

His travel documentary about his journey to North Korea, "Inside North Korea After 5 Years of Isolation," accrued over 3 million views in the first week since it was posted on Feb. 28.

ARD and ZDF released “Inside Korea — State Crisis in the Shadow of China and North Korea,” a documentary that focused on the supposed “links” between the sudden declaration of martial ...