North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but ...

“North Korea is a republic of infectious diseases,” Choi Jung-hun, a former North Korean doctor who defected in 2011 and now works as a physician in the South, told AFP.

North Korea, suffering from climate change and its own refusal of foreign aid, is threatened by food shortages. Flooding at the end of July and fears of further rain and above-average temperatures ...