North Korea lags behind most of the rest of the world in several areas. But the hermit state has had an outsized impact on international women's football.

The bronze medal is the best the Americans can do at the Under-20 World Cup after falling 1-0 to North Korea in the ...

Juche, North Korea’s unique state ideology, further imparts the importance of sacrificial dedication and self-reliance upon North Korean women. In essence, the North Korean state has been using ...

According to United Nations' assessments, the average North Korean woman has 1.79 children over her lifetime, a rate that falls short of 2.1 needed to maintain the population.

North Korea remains a tough place to be a woman. While the lives of some North Korean women have improved, it's important to stress that they are still living in a dictatorship with limited ...

Weich relays a theory that North Korea's focus on women's football sprung from a stage in Mexico in 1986. At that year's Fifa congress, Norwegian Ellen Wille, only 4ft 11in tall, stepped up to the ...

'North Korean women and girls are passed through the hands of traffickers, brokers, and criminal organisations. Before being pulled into China’s sex trade, where they are exploited and used by ...

The uneasy truce between the nuclear-armed North and the US-allied South remains one of the most vexing security concerns for ...

The Sheffield DocFest documentary 'North South Man Woman' by Morten Traavik, Sun Kim follows a refugee matchmaker looking to heal the divided Korea.