The book is divided into 11 chapters, ... The only hotel they didn't visit inside was the Ryugyong Hotel, North Korea's so-called "ghost hotel" that has been under construction since 1987.

North Korea’s privileged few, however, have tended to stay put, and their lives in Pyongyang have remained largely hidden. In “Dear Leader,” Jang Jin-sung pulls back the curtain, revealing ...

A 2017 rally in North Korea celebrating the birth of the nation. Writer Travis Jeppesen chronicles his time inside the secretive country in ‘See You Again in Pyongyang.’ ...

A new book by architecture critic Oliver Wainwright shows how Pyongyang’s buildings and urban plan can be used as vehicles to understand the North Korea’s past and present.

They say fact is stranger than fiction. One book smuggled out of North Korea encapsulates both. Written by a dissident writer still living inside the country, “The Accusation; Forbidden Stories ...

MARK EDWARD HARRIS is the author of "Inside North Korea," which will be published in April by Chronicle Books. I’VE TRAVELED to some amazing places. But visiting North Korea, which has been ...

Australian Anna Broinowski’s book shows life inside North Korea’s film industry. HE’S a six-foot tall blond who looks like a typical American.

Inside North Korea's Environmental Collapse. Scientists who recently visited the hermit nation report the situation is dire. ... a book about the lives of ordinary North Koreans who later defected.

Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University, plagiarized parts of his award-winning book on North Korea, Tyranny of the Weak: North ...

Confronting the reality of civilians in a socialist country who are forced to accept the national propaganda as unquestionable truth, Adam Johnson began to write "The Official Short Story of North ...