North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to lift living standards as he opened a landmark congress, state media said Friday, offering a glimpse of economic strains within the sanctions-hit nation. "Today ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is expected to use the event to set his domestic and foreign policy agenda for the next five years and further entrench his family’s authoritarian rule.

North Korea's military, the fourth-largest in the world, remains shrouded in mystery. Both men and women are required to serve in the military in North Korea. Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of North ...