Kim Jong Un unveiled a new lavish seaside resort that is set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and hardship across North Korea. CNN’s Will Ripley reports on the high-rise hotels that can accommodate nearly 20,

A North Korean defector is filing civil and criminal charges against the country's leader Kim Jong Un for abuses she faced while detained in the country. Choi Min-kyung fled the North to China in 1997 but was forcibly repatriated in 2008. She said she was sexually abused and tortured after her return.

A defector from North Korea is suing Kim Jong Un over claims of abuse that she faced while detained in the dictatorship under which he rules. Choi Min-kyung is filing civil and criminal charges against the North Korean ruler as well as four other Pyongyang officials,

A new book reveals that the leader's maternal grandfather was a Japan-based smuggler who had to flee to North Korea to escape prosecution A new book published in Japan has shed fresh light on the life of Ko Yong-hui,

There’s not much publicly known about the mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. She wasn’t part of the ruling Kim family’s sacred revolutionary bloodline. She rarely appeared in state media. And then,

Choi Min-kyung, a North Korean defector, intends to file a lawsuit against Kim Jong-un and four others—including officials from the Ministry of State Security—for violating international criminal law,

Through an event shown on North Korean state television, Mr. Kim also highlighted the sacrifices made for Moscow and the rewards he seeks.

Diminutive North Korean leader Kim Jong un was shown throwing himself on a coffin of a soldier who was killed fighting for Russia in a bizarre patriotic TV show on state media Monday. The program showed North Korean and Russian officials weeping as they viewed footage of Kim kneeling over a flag-draped casket of one of the hundreds of Koreans he had sent into Moscow’s meat grinder in Ukraine.

U.S. sanctions a ring of IT workers linked to North Korea, accused of infiltrating crypto firms to fund the missile program.