Pyongyang Marathon is one of several events celebrating the birthday of Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea and Kim Jong-un’s grandfather - Kim Won Jin/AFP North Korea held its first Pyongyang Marathon in six years on Sunday, and allowed foreigners ...

Each Friday Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter. PYONGYANG, North ...

Symbolism and atmospherics are often just as important as literal deliverables in Korean culture. This symbolic approach is not necessarily understandable to Western minds accustomed to direct, business-like methods. The recent inter-Korean summit in ...

Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt distinguished professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is based at SAIS-Europe, in Bologna, Italy. His new book, To Run the World ...

Pyongyang cold noodles, and other North Korean specialties, are foodie trends. SEOUL, South Korea -- During the first inter-Korean summit in April, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought a specialty dish of Pyongyang cold noodles for his South Korean ...

After a year of rapid nuclear advancements and provoking the rest of the world with threatening words and actions, North Korea is waging a predictable peace offensive, using the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea as a key tactic. North Korean Leader ...

The Pyongyang skyline is growing -- and not only with the vanity projects that represent the North Korean state. Despite sanctions and economic isolation, the capital is in the midst of a "mini-boom." 1 A crane tops off the Pyongyang city skyline on May 8 ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — While North Korea’s second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile dominated headlines late last week, Pyongyang quietly unveiled renovations around the capital’s biggest landmark: a futuristic, pyramid-shaped ...

I’ve just returned from my tenth reporting trip to North Korea. While the country remains closed to most of the outside world, during this trip we gained an unprecedented level of access to the lives of ordinary people. These men and women were chosen by ...

If, on a recent Wednesday morning, you had happened to find yourself in the cavernous lobby of Pyongyang's Yanggakdo Hotel, you might have witnessed the following exchange, between a pleasant-looking North Korean man and an exasperated-looking American ...

The pop-up supermarket, which opened over the weekend, will be open until April. SEOUL, South Korea -- Tin cases covered in pink stickers filled with "Punggye-ri popcorn." A "unification nuclear bomb" facial mask that moisturizes your skin and promises to ...

Seollal is a day for drinking.” It means that during the three-day holiday, people drink one toast to send off the old year, another to welcome the new year, and another while paying New Year’s greetings to elders,