Behind its grand avenues and imposing monuments, Pyongyang hides a reality few outsiders ever see. This rare glimpse into ...

Closed off from most of the world, Pyongyang offers a rare look at life under North Korea’s watchful eye. Its striking ...

A new book by architecture critic Oliver Wainwright shows how Pyongyang’s buildings and urban plan can be used as vehicles to understand the North Korea’s past and present.

The city of Pyongyang was actually very lively. It’s popular there to put bright plastic flowers in your balcony, and people wear clothes imported from China that have Disney characters on them.

If you can’t visit Pyongyang, this is the next best thing: a book filled with photographs of its weirdly shaped and oddly colored buildings. Under the Dear Leader (Kim Jong Il) and the current supreme ...

If Pyongyang embodies the architect’s dream of a model city, its facades are also suggestive of a Potemkin village. In their new monograph “Model City Pyongyang,” architects Cristiano ...

1 A crane tops off the Pyongyang city skyline on May 8, 2016. Construction is now a common sight in the city. 2 An overview of Pyongyang.

Pyongyang, a city of 3.2 million people, has a long history, but it was largely rebuilt after the Korean War (called the “American War” in North Korea) by the newly founded Communist ...

For the first time, foreign amateur competitors were allowed to participate in the Pyongyang marathon in North Korea. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with British runner Will Philipps about his experience.

A new book by architecture critic Oliver Wainwright shows how Pyongyang’s buildings and urban plan can be used as vehicles to understand the North Korea’s past and present.