North Korea, a secluded totalitarian state ruled by the Kim family for seven decades, emerged after the division of the ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met with Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova in Pyongyang on June 29 to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation in culture and the arts, according to North Korea’s ...

As the popularity of Russian culture has declined in Western countries since 2022, Moscow has intensified its cultural ties with Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Russia opened the “Russian Seasons” ...

Russia is sending schoolchildren "on holiday" to a summer camp in North Korea, where the children clean monuments to the leaders every morning, listen to speeches about the ideas of destroying ...

June 28 (Reuters) - Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova arrived in North Korea on Saturday with a 125-strong delegation of performers and praised cultural cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang ...

Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...

Those caught with unwashed vehicles must complete time-consuming paperwork, including written statements, and pay fines that ...

Westerners can't visit Pyongyang, but they can go on tours to the Rason Special Economic Zone. A tour guide told BI his first group in years included people from the UK, Australia, and Jamaica. North ...

SEOUL, June 30. /TASS/. Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova and her North Korean counterpart Sung Jong Gyu held a meeting during which they signed a cooperation plan between the ministries for ...