North Korea continues shutting down many of its limited embassies around the world, furthering suspicions of an ongoing financial crisis. The hermit kingdom is shutting down its embassy in Nepal ...

A flag of North Korea waves in the wind on a post at the North Korean Embassy in Madrid, Spain. The diplomatic mission was shuttered without explanation earlier this year alongside several others ...

North Korea confirmed on Friday it is shutting some embassies in an effort to "rearrange its diplomatic capacity efficiently", closures that South Korea says indicates the North is struggling ...

The North‘s embassy in Madrid was in the spotlight after members of a group seeking the overthrow of North Korean leader Kim Jong-in staged a break-in in 2019, during which they bound and gagged ...

Ri, 52, is the highest-ranking North Korean to defect to South Korea since Tae Yongho, a former minister of the North Korean Embassy in London, arrived in South Korea in 2016.