But population control has long been an essential task ... Research suggests the current birth rate of North Korea is a result of both the success and failure of the country's economic policies ...

The device would covertly take a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a secret folder which the user couldn’t ...

Measures include automatically replacing popular South Korean words with regime-approved terms and recording screenshots of ...

with those discovered dealing birth control drugs facing heavy fines and lifetime bans from the marketplace. North Korea, with a population of 26 million, is not alone as it faces shifting ...

Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing ... or an estimated 3-5% of what was then a 20 million-strong population. Trade data, satellite images and assessments by the ...

South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean border. It ...

South Korea halted its broadcasts along the 160-mile Demilitarized Zone on Wednesday, according to a statement from the ...

For the general population ... in North Korea. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are blocked. The government views these tools as dangerous and a threat to its control.

FILE - Pedestrians wear face masks to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 1 ... driven push to monitor its population even more closely, a report ...