Mr Kim and his family pull off a seemingly impossible feat and gives new insights into life there.

Americans arrested in the communist state have included tourists, a teacher and a Christian missionary.

The BBC has spent months talking to three North Koreans about their lives behind the sealed border.

Rare interviews with ordinary people inside the secretive state reveal chronic food shortages and starvation.

Reunited in Seoul after a decade apart, Songmi asks her mother why she left her behind in the north.

A defector details what happened inside a prison for those who tried to escape.

A new investigation sheds more light on human rights violations in North Korean prisons.

A UN expert has urged for international sanctions to be lifted to prevent a food crisis.