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A man watches a television screen showing news footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending the 8th congress of the ruling Workers' Party held in Pyongyang, at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday.

In Rare Display Of Contrition, North Korean Leader Admits Failures

At a Party Congress gathering in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un acknowledged that policies of the past five years had been an abject failure.

Here's How We Cope When We're Stressed: Ideas From NPR's Arts Desk

A Norwegian knitting marathon. America's Next Top Model. British crime dramas. Real-time strategy games. Peanut soup. These are some things that help us feel better — maybe they'll work for you, too?

Here's How We Cope When We're Stressed: Ideas From NPR's Arts Desk

A Norwegian knitting marathon. America's Next Top Model. British crime dramas. Real-time strategy games. Peanut soup. These are some things that help us feel better — maybe they'll work for you, too?

San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr., center, celebrates with teammates after the Padres defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 in Game 3 of a National League wild-card baseball series Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, in San Diego. The Padres won the series and advanced to the Division Series.

Padres Trade For Aces While Ballpark Businesses Hope For Fans Next Season

The team proved it is all in on challenging the LA Dodgers by trading for two all-star pitchers and a star infielder from Korea.

South Korea Bans Floating Leaflets By Balloon To North Korea

South Korea's government is criticized after it passed a law banning sending leaflets and other materials into North Korea. The law is intended to reduce tensions between the two countries.

People wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus pass by a poster emphasizing an enhanced social distancing campaign at a bus station on Monday in Seoul, South Korea.

South Korea's Health Minister Describes Seoul As A 'COVID-19 War Zone'

New social distancing measures are due to take effect Tuesday evening. The government warns of an impending crisis, brought on by a third wave of infections.

Fedencia Nacar David holds her photo for an application to work as a maid. She was 15. A year before, a Japanese soldier sliced her ear and threatened to behead her if she didn't go to a garrison with him; she was raped over 10 days. "It still hurts," she says. "I was innocent. Why did that happen to me?" She kept her past from her children until "comfort women" began speaking out in the 1990s.

PHOTOS: Why These World War II Sex Slaves Are Still Demanding Justice

The Japanese army forced some 200,000 women into sexual slavery during World War II. They were known as "comfort women." This special report tells the stories of the survivors in the Philippines.

Marines of the 5th and 7th regiments who hurled back a surprise onslaught by three Chinese communist divisions wait to withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area circa December 1950.

'God ... Let Us Survive': Remembering Korean War's Chosin Battle And Evacuation

Seventy years on, war participants are drawing starkly differing conclusions from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The decisive conflict's lasting legacy is still visible on the Korean Peninsula.

Jung-su (Yoo Ah-in), Hae-mi (Jun Jong-seo) and Ben (Steven Yuen) form an odd triangular relationship in Lee Chang-dong's "Burning."

South Korea's Foreign Film Oscar Entry 'Burning' Opens

Director Lee Chang-Dong delivers a challenging but richly rewarding film

A North Korean man defected to South Korea by hopping a fence along the Demilitarized Zone separating the two countries.

North Korean Former Gymnast Fled To South Korea By Jumping Fence

The unnamed man defected to the South on Nov. 3, avoiding capture for 14 hours. He is seeking asylum in South Korea.

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