North Korean defectors urged the international community to step up pressure on Pyongyang over human rights abuses as a major ...

A North Korean soldier crossed the heavily fortified border into South Korea on foot on Oct. 19, and several armed North ...

Since last year, North Korea has further reinforced its side of the border with anti-tank barriers and other fortifications, ...

A North Korean soldier has pulled off a highly unusual defection to South Korea across the land mine-riddled Demilitarized ...

Chinese police are co-opting brokers who help North Korean defectors in China reach South Korea, taking control of defection ...

If confirmed, the soldier would join tens of thousands of North Koreans who have fled poverty and repression in North Korea since the peninsula was split by war in the 1950s. Last year, 236 North ...

Many North Korean defectors in South Korea use a secret network of brokers to stay connected to those back home. But recently, South Korea investigated some of those brokers for espionage.

NORTH Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un is running a vast network of brutal political gulags where tens of thousands of men, women ...

South Korea is planning to change the term “defectors” to describe North Koreans who flee the country to resettle in the South, as the word carries “negative connotation”. South Korea’s Ministry of ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Seong-Min, a prominent North Korean defector who used radio broadcasts, USB sticks and a network of sources in the secretive country to inform the North Korean public ...