The high-rise neighborhood is part of a major construction drive in the capital Pyongyang, where residents’ quality of life ...

But despite the gleaming images of Pyongyang’s new skyline, high-rise living in North Korea is not necessarily a symbol of luxury. Frequent power outages mean that elevators in residential ...

Human rights in one of the world’s most egregious authoritarian regimes are set to be diminished even further, thanks to ...

The halt to funding for the NED threatens to shut down groups documenting and helping to stop human rights abuses in North ...

Musk said that federal workers would receive an email asking them to report their weekly tasks, warning that "failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." ...

Retirement can be a great time to travel abroad, and some retirees even take the more adventurous step of moving overseas. If ...

Trump’s order to cut funding to Voice of America and several other pro-democracy media outlets has drawn widespread criticism ...

The Musk email, with the subject, "What did you do last week?", sparked anxiety among employees. Days after billionaire Elon Musk sent an email to federal employees asking them to list the tasks ...

Both defectors requested that their names not be printed to protect their safety, as they still have family living in North Korea. The first defector came from a very poor family in the Musan ...

She compared the situation to authoritarian rule, stating, "It felt much like I would imagine living in a place like what I always imagined North Korea to be like, would be like, um, where the ...