Police have detained six Americans in South Korea for allegedly trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, U.S.

The group was reportedly attempting to throw around 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks into restricted waters in hopes they would drift into North Korea, ...

A visitor looks into North Korea from an observatory in Gimpo, South Korea on Friday. AP Visitors sit at a newly opened Starbucks store as North Korea's Kaephung county is seen in the background.

It comes after North Korea opened a John Lewis-style department store selling western brands in 2019 - mocking UN sanctions that were imposed in 2006, which banned the sale of western goods to the ...

The Pothonggang Department Store is in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital. Song Un Pyol, manager at the upscale Potonggang department store in Pyongyang. AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File ...

Yet these little red books serve a special purpose: they are used for carrying out one's “life review” (saenghwal ch'onghwa). For this reason, the books are empty.