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 ...

South Korea is studying various plans to improve relations with North Korea, a spokesperson for South Korea's Unification ...

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 ...

The Dec. 29, 2024, plenary session of the Eighth Party Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was presented as a grand showcase of North Korea's achievements and a roadmap for its future.

The uneasy truce between nuclear-armed North Korea and US-allied South Korea remains one of the most vexing ... The country has 1.28 million active military personnel — about 5% of the population.

Despite its food shortages, North Korea maintains 1.3 million active-duty soldiers and keep s 7.6 million — or 30 percent of its population — as reservists , making it the world’s fourth ...