North Korea

The Kim dynasty's hereditary communist state: its founding, the Korean War, the 1990s famine, the prison camp system and the personality cult.

• Repression Under Communism: Executions, Camps and Famines

  The documented human cost of communist rule — the Soviet Terror, China's famine, Cambodia's killing fields, North Korea's camps — with the evidence.

• North Korea's Political Prison Camps: The Hidden Gulag

  Inside North Korea's kwanliso, where a UN inquiry found hundreds of thousands of political prisoners have died through starvation, forced labour and execution.

• Who Owns North Korea? Property, Rations and Control

  How North Korea's state took the land, the factories and the food supply — and fought the markets that grew up after the famine of the 1990s.

• North Korea's Information Blockade: Propaganda and Punishment

  How North Korea keeps its people from the outside world: one state news source, registered radios and TVs, and prison for watching South Korean dramas.

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