Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Scenes from North Korea’s Kaesong Industrial Zone
Kaesong Industrial Zone, an area located in the Cold War-era DMZ between the two Koreas, has earned an estimated $2 billion a year in trade for the impoverished...
A House Divided: Photos From Korea’s 1948 Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion
A few years before the Korean Peninsula erupted in the civil war that saw the North and the South (and the U.S. and China) engaged in a conflict that would help...
NoKo Propaganda: How to Smash the Puppet Traitors
No nation does propaganda like the Hermit Kingdom. On a daily basis, North Korea’s leadership and official news agency trade in jargon and slogans that few...
North Korea Ratchets Up Tension on The Peninsula
In keeping with the dynasty’s tradition of erratic behavior, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to bombard a South Korean island with 5,000...
Exposing North Korea
A rare visit to one of the world's last closed societies. Photographs by Christopher Morris for TIME
North Korea Mourns Kim Jong Il
Thousands gather in Pyongyang to mourn the death of the North Korean leader
North Korea Goes to the Polls
On Sunday, March 8, North Koreans went to the polls to elect their rubber-stamp Parliament, leading the way for another five years in office for leader Kim Jong...
Patterns of North Korea
Photographer Feng Li provides an insight to life inside the Hermit Kingdom
North Korea's Heir Apparent Kim Jong Un
Kim Jong Il's third son is seemingly being groomed to take over leadership of the Hermit Kingdom
Photos: Food Crisis in North Korea
A rare glimpse of the Hermit Kingdom's fight against malnutritionPhotographs by Damir Sagolj / Reuters* NOTE: The photos in this gallery were taken on...
Bill Clinton's North Korea Rescue Mission
The former President gains the release of two American journalists held by the government of Kim Jong Il
Rare Pictures from Inside North Korea
Photographer Tomas van Houtryve gets an extraordinarily unfilitered view of life inside the reclusive Asian nation
Party Time in North Korea
The Hermit Kingdom takes a day off to celebrate a political anniversary and the wider introduction of heir apparent Kim Jong Un
Rare Visions of Rural North Korea
In the book "Red Land", photographer Liu Yuan provides a glimpse of life in the interior of the Hermit Kingdom
World of Stagecraft — North Korea Edition
Some carefully constructed visual propaganda from the Conference of the Workers' Party brought to you by the rulers of the Hermit Kingdom
LIFE in the Korean War: Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan
Few people have lived as long, as varied and as complete a life as David Douglas Duncan. And certainly no photographers ever enjoyed a longer, more varied or...
Dead Leaders on Display: When Heads of State Are Preserved in Perpetuity
Venezuela’s government announced Thursday that late president Hugo Chavez’s body is to be embalmed and displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far...
Nevada Ghosts: LIFE After an A-Bomb Test, 1955
In the spring of 1955, as the Cold War intensified and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated at a shocking pace, America — as it...
Overtures in Kim's Cold Capital
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra played a historic concert in North Korea. A look at some of the highlights of the momentous trip to Kim Jong Il's hermit...
