But population control has long been an essential task ... Research suggests the current birth rate of North Korea is a result of both the success and failure of the country's economic policies ...

More than decade after a landmark United Nations report found North Korea guilty of crimes against humanity, many abuses ...

Concerns about North Korea’s chronic food shortages are growing ... or an estimated 3-5% of what was then a 20 million-strong population. Trade data, satellite images and assessments by the ...

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that North Korea ... In 2015, the government prohibited abortion and birth control procedures. Still, North Korea’s food shortage in the aftermath of the ...

with those discovered dealing birth control drugs facing heavy fines and lifetime bans from the marketplace. North Korea, with a population of 26 million, is not alone as it faces shifting ...

Officials drastically understated outbreaks and deaths, depriving citizens of help, two U.S. research groups report, citing ...

FILE - Pedestrians wear face masks to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 1 ... driven push to monitor its population even more closely, a report ...

The military government initiated a strong drive for economic growth and population control in 1962 ... and about 80% of them settled in South Korea. Adding to this, a population movement developed ...