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An estimated 100,000 North Koreans are posted abroad, where they earn valuable foreign currency.

From saying you have a ‘tough life’ while drinking with friends to joking about how worthless the money is, the list of banned speech in North Korea is as seemingly endless as it is arbitrary – as a new museum in Seoul shows.

Those returned to North Korea face prospect of life-long imprisonment, torture and even execution, activists say

Thousands of defectors and exiles in China face a grim forced return | World News

Cameras with facial recognition technology has made freedom even more difficult for North Koreans who have managed to cross the border into China.

The opening up of the oppressive regime after Covid could put refugees in mortal danger, according to human rights charities

Thousands of defectors and exiles in China face a grim forced return | Asia

While modern society has known North Korea for its isolationist policies, the so-called hermit kingdom is not completely cut off from the rest of the world. Perhaps still unbeknownst to some, the upper half of the Korean Peninsula does have internet — albeit only accessed by a few and one that looks much smaller from the World Wide Web we virtually live in. What North Korean internet looks like: To understand just how much North Koreans can possibly know about the world through a comput...

While modern society has known North Korea for its isolationist policies, the so-called hermit kingdom is not completely cut off from the rest of the world. Perhaps still unbeknownst to some, the upper half of the Korean Peninsula does have internet — albeit only accessed by a few and one that looks much smaller from the World Wide Web we virtually live in. What North Korean internet looks like: To understand just how much North Koreans can possibly know about the world through a comput...

Some citizens reportedly even have unrestricted access