North Korea, a country shrouded in secrecy and controlled by an iron-fisted regime, is facing an existential demographic ...

The current population of communist North Korea has been estimated at around twenty-five million, approximately half its southern, democratic rival, according to the Central Intelligence Agency.

In a rare admission, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country's birth rate is too low. Experts see no working solution for a looming population crisis.

The North Korean economy largely relies on production of coal, concrete and industrial plastics, and has been kept afloat by ...

North Korea's population lacking food, trading valuables at border, analysts say. By Elizabeth Shim. North Korea closed its border with China in January 2020, allowing few essential goods to pass ...

North Korea is set to treble the number of its troops fighting for Russia along the front lines with Ukraine, sending an additional 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers to assist Moscow, according to an ...

There are also fears that new, possibly more virulent, variants could emerge from unchecked transmission through North Korea’s population of about 25 million. Dr. Kee B. Park, ...

Credit: Depositphotos North Korea has dealt with COVID-19 in its usual fashion by cutting itself off from the world, irrespective of the consequences to its population.