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 ...

Choi Min Kyung says she suffered physical and sexual abuse in North Korean detention after being repatriated from China ...

Around 80% of North Korean defectors who arrive in South Korea are women, and among them, approximately 70% have experienced trafficking in China. Those fortunate enough to safely reach South ...

In South Korea, right-leaning young men are less likely to focus on North Korea than feminism, which — for them — has become ...

The rise and fall of North Korea - the sleeping giant of women's football "Normally when there are 30 shots in the game, it is the United States with about 25 of 'em. Not today!" It wasn't just ...

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

South Korea's Unification Ministry confirmed reports on Monday that it plans to repatriate six North Koreans who were rescued ...

GIMPO, South Korea (AP) — Prisoners of war held for decades after the fighting stopped. Civilian abductees. Defectors. Separated families. They are Koreans who symbolize the decades of division and ...

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 ...