During the famine in the mid-1990s, grain was hard to come by, he said. North Korea monitoring groups have reported increases in the prices of rice and corn — the two most important staples ...

She recalled the pain of experiencing North Korea’s deadliest famine in the 1990s. She decided when she was 23 that she wanted to leave the country, hoping that her future children would not ...

He escaped North Korea on a rainy day and found shelter with ... but didn’t see a path forward through the famine. “I spent my days battling despair and hopelessness,” she said.

I have proceeded under the assumption that the answer to the second question does not necessarily depend upon the answer to the first: history is replete with examples of governments pursuing ...

North Korea represented a buffer of sorts between ... and began reforms in the economy (Great Leap Forward) that created famine and killed tens of millions, although literacy rates greatly ...

South Korea’s envoy warned of the potential consequences ... On Monday, the RSF announced a new assault on North Darfur’s embattled capital, El-Fasher, which is still held by the Sudanese ...

Accidents and injuries can happen anywhere, but the US government warns that the risk of terrorism, kidnapping, and other dangers is higher in some countries than others. That's why it lists some ...

Drama-documentary inspired by the defection of North Korea's Deputy Ambassador to the ... or a struggling family faced with famine and poverty, leaving the world’s most reclusive and secretive ...

Seventy-five years ago, World Vision founder Bob Pierce visited Seoul, South Korea, as it was on the brink of war with the North. He traveled with a camera ... responders to the devastating 1984 ...