A student in North Korea tried to steal gas from a military vehicle to pay a school fee. He was caught by soldiers and beaten to death, per a report by Radio Free Asia.

North Korea claimed Saturday that an Australian student who was released by the country after being detained for a week had spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda and engaged in espionage. The country's ...

Otto Warmbier is said to have been in a coma since sometime after his sentencing in North Korea in March 2016. The American student was sentenced to a 15-year prison term after his arrest.

READ MORE: North Korea sentences American student to 15 years of hard labor. While North Korea’s move to free Warmbier could potentially provide an opening for talks on security issues, ...

An American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea and returned to his home state of Ohio in a coma suffered a "severe neurological injury," a hospital spokeswoman said Thursday.

PYONGYANG, North Korea-- North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he acknowledged and apologized for attempting to steal a political banner ...

North Korea said Mr. Sigley had been expelled with “humanitarian leniency.” His fate contrasted with that of Otto F. Warmbier , the American student who died in 2017 after falling into a coma ...

North Korea said it had detained a U.S. student for committing an unspecified “hostile act,” the latest in a series of tourists and missionaries who have been held by Pyongyang.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Todor Merdjanov, 33, a Bulgarian university student who spent a month in September 2013 attending Korean language classes at Kim Il Sung ...

In 2017, an American student, Otto F. Warmbier, died after falling into a coma while being detained in North Korea. In December, a judge ordered the North to pay his family more than $500 million.