This file photo, provided by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea on Dec. 1, 2016, shows a satellite image of a political prison camp in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, taken Jan. 18, 2003 ...

SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean documentary revealed Monday that North Korean troops deployed to support Russia in the war against Ukraine had been subjected to battlefield atrocities, ...

North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency announced on Wednesday that its mysterious American captive, Kenneth Bae, has begun his 15-year sentence at a "special prison," which has Korea ...

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What if, instead of leaving North Korea today, Dennis Rodman didn't make it out and was instead thrown into a prison camp by the country's erratic young dictator Kim Jong-un? And what if two brave ...