can North Korea's women be a force once again? O'Reilly and her United States team-mates may have lacked footage of North Korea. Brigitte Weich certainly doesn't. The Austrian filmmaker spent five ...

But a new exhibition at the University of Technology Sydney aims to reflect how North Korean women are flipping the script against a backdrop of economic hardship and social constraint.

The North Korean women U17 have won the latest edition of the FIFA World Cup tournament after beating Spain in the penalties at the Estadio Felix Sanchez, Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Ahn, who has interviewed many North Korean defectors, said the smuggling of a vast amount of South Korean TV dramas and movies in the past 20 years that showed an elevated social status for women ...

They also agreed to field a joint women's ice hockey team in rare talks ... It marks a thaw in relations that began in the new year when North Korea offered to send a team to the games.