Editing by Nara Han / Artwork by NK NEWS illustrator Cammy Smithwick One thing l love about New York City is its diversity. There are different people from all over the globe sharing their culture and building their communities. For example, New York’s Chinatown is the largest Chinese community in the western hemisphere. When I feel like [...]

Cooperative farms nationwide are planting, and industrial art exhibition ended, Pyongyang goes cycling and in international news, a U.S. aircraft crashes while brush fires ravage California. [...]

In her second dispatch from New York City, our North Korean in NYC writes about the differences between holiday celebrations in the big apple and the DPRK. [...]

A North Korean now living in New York City tells NK NEWS how street food between the two places compares [...]

Park Ji Woo was born in North Korea and escaped with her mother when she was 9 years old. Today Park is 24 and studies English in New York City. [...]

Part 1 of our special series on North Korean women introduced the female iconography of the DPRK. In this second part, we explore the various roles of North Korean women and the realities of their daily lives. [...]

South Korea’s Ministry of Unification has launched a smart phone application for North Korean defectors in the South, according to the Dong-A Ilbo. [...]

Canadian Erich Weingartner recounts how he helped set up an exclusive foreigner only bar in Pyongyang, called the "Random Access Club". [...]

I have just finished watching BBC Panorama’s “Undercover in North Korea”, perhaps the best example of what documentaries on North Korea should not be like. [...]

The founder and president of the Korea Friendship Association, Alejandro Cao de Benós de Les y Pérez, was connected to a BBC journalist's undercover entry into North Korea. [...]