North Korea

North Korea's car culture is both mysterious and bizarre. Donut Media takes a deep dive inside the weirdest place in the world to drive a car.

North Korea is adding a number of new deadly weapons to its arsenal in Pyongyang, including missiles that launch from trains to hypersonic ones — here's why the nation is adding to its existing set of nuclear bombs and submarines at an alarming pace.

As one of the world's most repressive countries, North Korea makes it nearly impossible to escape. Here's how it got so bad and here are the only ways to leave.

North Korea is one of the closed off societies in the world — except when they wanted to produce an unauthorized Disney spectacle.

Here's a glimpse into a morning in Kaesong, the second biggest city in North Korea.

Chul-eun Lee was once a North Korean spy until he defected to South Korea to start a new life in 2016. Here's why and how he escaped North Korea.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has one of the most highly sophisticated counterfeiting rackets in the world. Here's how they've made near replica $100 bills, which they've passed off to various countries.

What happens if you ship AirTags to three of the most interesting destinations in the world?

Here is one of the ways illegal oil gets delivered to North Korea despite the imposing of sanctions.

Pyongyang is typically depicted with blue skies and happy people in propaganda videos. What does it look like when it rains?

How one of the most repressive cities in the world designed an architecturally striking cityscape.

A North Korean refugee describes the harrowing experience of surviving labor camps and escaping from North Korea twice.

How America's weirdest basketball player became obsessed with the world's weirdest country.

North Korea spent $750 million dollars on building the Ryugyong Hotel or 2 percent of their entire GDP. Why has it never opened?

North Korea censors most of its internet, but the things it does allow its people to see are pretty strange — at least, to Westerners.

Since the separation of North and South Korea in 1945, the languages of the two countries have gone on different paths.

"It was a very symbolic gesture. I hope that it's not something that just ends as a political spectacle."

"Seeing dead bodies on the street was everyday life."

Since Kim became the leader of North Korea in 2011, he's left the country only seven times — and he's mostly traveled by rail.

Unlike many North Koreans, Geum Hyok Kim lived fairly comfortably in the North Korean capital but one dinner with South Korean friends forever changed his world view.