Richard Lloyd Parry

For decades North and South have pumped propaganda out of loudspeakers. Now the 24-hour racket is so disturbing that residents are taking tranquillisers

Prabowo Subianto has called Russia ‘a great friend’ and pledged to strengthen the relationship between the countries

Pyongyang delegates made the rare admission during the UN’s universal periodic review — while defending the totalitarian state’s record on human rights

There has been a surge in immigrants on study visas since the defence pact between President Putin and Kim Jong-un

Yoon Suk-yeol is preparing for ‘golf diplomacy’ with the president-elect, who has previously threatened to strike a deal with Kim Jong-un

Crackdown may be motivated by desire to prevent displays of mass mourning from developing into expressions of public anger towards the regime

Kim Ye-ji, who won air pistol silver for South Korea in Paris, wowed fans with her sci-fi style and ice-cold demeanour. Then film stardom came calling

Dozens of prominent lawyers, scholars and democratic politicians have been imprisoned in the biggest trial so far under the controversial National Security Law

The media tycoon and pro-democracy activist, arrested in 2020 under Beijing’s national security law, begins his defence against charges of sedition

The Rev Ju Yeong-bong says the animals can be ‘our friends but they can also be our food’ even as young Koreans turn away from eating bosintang