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

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

Key point: North Korea’s population will be unable to bring in immigrants to fix its falling population. South Korea’s demographic decline might be alarming, but its northern neighbor is ...

According to United Nations' assessments, the average North Korean woman has 1.79 children over her lifetime, a rate that falls short of 2.1 needed to maintain the population.

While the population of North Korea is younger than the South, unification with North Korea is unlikely to solve South Korea’s own demographic challenge.

North Korea, with a population of 26 million, is not alone as it faces shifting demographics, and its fertility rate is higher than Russia (1.4), Japan (1.2), China (1.0), and South Korea, and ...

Kim Jong Un’s rare admission that North Korea faces a population crisis indicates he’s just as worried about a demographic crunch that could undermine the economy as he is about the US forces ...