In the 26th minute of the first half, Hong Sung-ok broke through the penalty box and shook the net with a calm low shot. Two ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Women who do not work (only an estimated 5-10 percent of women in North Korea remain in the workforce after having children) are also required to be members of the Social Women’s Union of Korea ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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

North Korea is often described as one of the most repressive countries in the world. But a new exhibition at the University of Technology Sydney aims to reflect how North Korean women are flipping ...