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North Korea enacts urban development law to provide better living conditions

North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament has enacted an urban development law aimed at modernizing city environments to provide ...

North Korea’s population crisis warning signs

While many other countries are grappling with an aging workforce and declining birth rates, these challenges are especially acute for North Korea, where roughly 60 percent of the population is ...
Human Rights Watch

Submission on North Korea’s Implementation of Recommendations from the Third and Fourth Cycles of the Universal Periodic Review for the Special Rapporteur’s Report

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to assess the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) implementation of selected Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations from the third (2019 ...

Why the North Korean women's football team is so good

North Korea's young female footballers have won back-to-back U17 World Cups. Why is the isolated state so good at the game?
Foreign Affairs

North Korea’s Second Chance?

Since coming to office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump has waded into several geopolitical crises, including Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s wars in Gaza and Iran. Thus far, however, he ...