Events of 2020 in North Korea. Party Chairman and State Chairman: Kim Jong-un President of the Supreme People's Assembly: Choe Ryong-hae Premier: Kim...

The COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea was part of a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe...

single nation that was annexed by Japan in 1910, the Korean Peninsula has been divided into North Korea and South Korea since the end of World War II on 2...

defect from North Korea for political, material, and personal reasons. Defectors flee to various countries, mainly South Korea. In South Korea, they are...

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula...

gestures. As of 20 March 2020[update], North Korea has carried out 147 tests of strategic missiles since its first such test in 1984. 15 were carried out...

weapons per year. North Korea has also stockpiled a significant quantity of chemical and biological weapons. In 2003, North Korea withdrew from the Treaty...

defectors from North Korea to South Korea. In total, as of 2016[update], 31,093 North Korean defectors had entered South Korea. By 2020 the number had...

The economy of North Korea is a centrally planned economy, following Juche, where the role of market allocation schemes is limited, although increased...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea. It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage...